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Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney has the highest spending on Personal Independence Payment and Adult Disability Payment per resident in 2023-24.

Help with the extra costs of a long-term health condition or disability. In Scotland, Adult Disability Payment replaces Personal Independence Payment. Shown in 2026-27 prices, adjusted for inflation so that years can be compared.

Per resident, low to high

Under £270
£270 to £362
£362 to £455
£455 to £548
£548 to £640
£640 and over

Estimated value

Spending on Personal Independence Payment and Adult Disability Payment, per resident, 2023-24, by constituency. Boundaries are simplified. London is also shown larger, in a separate box. Northern Ireland is not covered. Every value is in the table below.

More ways to look at itHow ranks change, why spending changed, and spending compared with the expected level

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Does the order change when you count per person?

Each line is one of the 632 ranked constituencies. It joins the area's rank for each way of counting. The 10 highest per resident are drawn in dark lines.

What changed

More people, more claims or bigger payments?

Great Britain, Personal Independence Payment and Adult Disability Payment: yearly spending at the rate in July 2023 and in July 2026. The chart splits the change into three parts: the number of people in the age group, the share of them claiming, and the average payment. 2026-27 prices.

What changed: Personal Independence Payment and Adult Disability Payment
July 2023	£22.1bn
Population	+£299.4m
Share claiming	+£7.1bn
Payment size	+£1.0bn
July 2026	£30.5bn

The share claiming is the number of people claiming per resident. Yearly spending here is the number claiming, times the average weekly payment, times 52. It is not the amount paid out over the year. Population after mid-2024 stays at the mid-2024 figure, so later growth shows in the share claiming. Scottish areas are left out because Social Security Scotland pays this benefit.

Compared with similar areas

Is spending higher or lower than expected?

Benefit spending per resident, 2024-25. We compare it with the level we would expect from each area's share of children and of people aged 66 and over, how deprived it is compared with the rest of its nation, and the typical pay of people who live there. 2026-27 prices.

Expected level = −£880 + £1,417 × share aged 0 to 15 + £9,950 × share aged 66 and over − £207 × deprivation decile + £391 × ln(median pay) + £506 × Wales + £250 × Scotland. Fitted by ordinary least squares across 625 constituencies. R² = 0.84. Gold dots are above the expected level and grey dots are below it.

Every constituency

Spending on Personal Independence Payment and Adult Disability Payment, 2023-24. Rank is for per resident, and 1 is the highest. Areas with fewer than 1,000 people in the age group have no rank. The first 50 of 632 rows are shown.

Spending on Personal Independence Payment and Adult Disability Payment for every constituency, 2023-24
Rank				Notes
1	Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney	£89.6m	£940
2	Aberafan Maesteg	£83.8m	£909
3	Liverpool Walton	£93.1m	£908
4	Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare	£87.1m	£870
5	Easington	£80.3m	£842
6	Rhondda and Ogmore	£84.8m	£841
7	Knowsley	£81.3m	£837
8	Birkenhead	£83.3m	£772
9	Bootle	£79.5m	£771
10	Liverpool West Derby	£76.3m	£764
11	Caerphilly	£72.2m	£747
12	Neath and Swansea East	£75.5m	£746
13	Blackpool South	£81.8m	£734
14	Torfaen	£68.5m	£733
15	Llanelli	£69.7m	£732
16	Clwyd North	£73.5m	£730
17	Swansea West	£80.8m	£726
18	Coatbridge and Bellshill	£67.4m	£709	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
19	Dundee Central	£75.5m	£707	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
20	Airdrie and Shotts	£66.1m	£706	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
21	Hartlepool	£67.6m	£705
22	Wallasey	£68.2m	£700
23	Liverpool Riverside	£88.3m	£693
24	Inverclyde and Renfrewshire West	£62.0m	£689	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
25	West Dunbartonshire	£63.0m	£687	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
26	Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke	£66.5m	£681	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
27	Glasgow South	£62.5m	£681	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
28	Barnsley South	£72.5m	£680
29	Houghton and Sunderland South	£70.2m	£674
30	North Ayrshire and Arran	£60.9m	£671	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
31	Glasgow West	£67.8m	£670	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
32	Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough	£75.3m	£663
33	Glasgow East	£68.2m	£661	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
34	Glasgow North	£74.6m	£660	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
35	Glasgow South West	£65.8m	£658	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
36	Cumbernauld and Kirkintilloch	£60.4m	£656	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
37	Jarrow and Gateshead East	£62.7m	£656
38	Nottingham North and Kimberley	£71.5m	£655
39	Birmingham Erdington	£80.8m	£648
40	Glasgow North East	£73.3m	£647	Shared out, Estimated, Includes Scottish benefits
41	Middlesbrough and Thornaby East	£77.1m	£647
42	Liverpool Garston	£61.6m	£646
43	Blyth and Ashington	£66.8m	£642
44	Newton Aycliffe and Spennymoor	£62.5m	£641
45	Washington and Gateshead South	£61.3m	£641
46	Pontypridd	£66.9m	£640
47	South Shields	£57.2m	£637
48	St Helens South and Whiston	£60.9m	£629
49	Redcar	£59.5m	£629
50	Sunderland Central	£64.3m	£628

League table of every constituency for the latest period

Values are per resident unless a column says otherwise. Sources: Department for Work and Pensions, Social Security Scotland, Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland.

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