£324 payment to hit bank accounts from today
Almost one in four families across the UK will receive £324 from the government this month as the latest Cost of Living Payments are sent out from today (8 November 2022).
Over 8 million households in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland who claimed qualifying means-tested benefits during the eligibility period will be automatically paid £324 this month, as part of £1,200 worth of direct help for households.
- over 8 million benefit claimants to receive £324 this month as part of Cost of Living support
- DWP claimants will receive their second Cost of Living payment by 23 November 2022, and eligible tax credit claimants, on no other means-tested benefits, will receive it between 23 and 30 November 2022
- payments will automatically be made to everyone eligible, with no need for anyone to apply
The payments, starting today from the Department for Work and Pensions, are made directly into eligible recipients’ bank accounts, with no need for people to apply or do anything to receive it.
The payment reference on DWP recipients’ bank accounts will be their national insurance number, followed by “DWP COL”. For HMRC recipients the payment reference will be “HMRC COLS”.
Work and Pensions Secretary, Mel Stride said:
We understand that people are struggling and that is why we’ve consistently acted to ensure millions of low-income families are supported. We will continue to act with compassion as we navigate challenging global economic circumstances.
As part of a wider £37 billion package of support, this latest £324 payment will help the most vulnerable people in our society who are worrying about their finances through the winter months.
The government’s £1,200 support package contains £400 for energy bills that is being paid in monthly instalments to all domestic energy customers between now and March 2023. It also includes a £150 Council Tax rebate for 85% of all UK households and the previous £326 Cost of Living Payment made by DWP in July and by HMRC in September.
On top of this, nearly one in ten people received the £150 disability payment in September, and a £300 addition to Winter Fuel Payments will go to over eight million pensioner households over the winter.
Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt added:
Prices are rising across the world as we manage the aftershock of COVID-19 and Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. We recognise that families back home are struggling, which is why we’ve taken decisive action to hold down energy bills this winter, and provided hundreds of pounds of cash support for each vulnerable household.
As part of that support, over 8 million vulnerable households - almost a quarter of families in the UK – will automatically receive a second cost of living payment worth £324 in their bank account from today.
And while we can’t completely protect people from rising prices, my priority at the upcoming Autumn Statement will be to protect the poorest in society as we take the tough decisions necessary to fix our public finances.
Those eligible to receive the second cost of living payment from today include people on:
- Universal Credit
- Income-based Jobseekers Allowance (JSA)
- Income-related Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)
- Income Support
- Pension Credit
To be eligible, claimants must have been claiming and entitled to a payment between 26 August and 25 September 2022, with the exception of pensioner households, who may be able to have a new Pension Credit claim backdated.
They have until 18 December 2022 to submit a valid claim for Pension Credit, which could entitle them to the £324 Cost of Living payment. Anyone can check their eligibility for Pension Credit using the online calculator or by calling the freephone claim line, on: 0800 99 1234.
Even if you are not on a qualifying DWP benefit you may still be eligible for the £324 payment, as HMRC are also making payments to over a million people who receive Working Tax Credit or Child Tax Credit and no other eligible benefits. These will be paid between 23 and 30 November 2022 and customers do not need to contact the government or apply for the payment at any stage.
The £324 payment and the overall £1,200 package come on top of wide-ranging government support with the cost of living this winter, including an extension to the Household Support Fund, which is providing an extra £421 million between October and March to help vulnerable people with the essentials.
As well as this, the Energy Price Guarantee is ensuring people across the country pay significantly less for their energy bills, with a typical household saving around £700 this winter.
More information about Cost of Living support
- low-income households are benefiting from government support in a variety of different ways. You can read more about the government’s cost of living support and what is available
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the cost of living support package was announced in May 2022 and includes 6 one-off support measures:
- a £650 Cost of Living Payment, made in two payments, to claimants of certain means-tested benefits including Universal Credit, most of the legacy benefits and tax credits it is replacing (except Housing Benefit), and Pension Credit
- a £150 Disability Cost of Living Payment for recipients of certain non-means-tested disability benefits, including Personal Independence Payment (PIP) and Attendance Allowance (AA)
- a £300 Pensioner Cost of Living Payment, paid as an addition to the Winter Fuel Payment, to households with at least one person entitled to a Winter Fuel Payment for winter 2022 to 2023
- a £150 Council Tax rebate for 85% of all UK households
- an expansion of the Energy Bills Support Scheme, providing households with £400 of support towards their energy bills
- additional funding to extend the Household Support Fund
- to be eligible for the second payment of £324, families must have been entitled to a payment (or later found to be entitled to a payment) of either:
- Universal Credit for an assessment period that ended in the period 26 August to 25 September 2022
- Income-based JSA, income-related ESA, Income Support or Pension Credit for any day in the period 26 August 2022 to 25 September 2022
- Tax credit-only customers, who will receive the second payment shortly after DWP payments, must have received a payment or an annual award of at least £26 of tax credits for any day in the period 26 August 2022 to 25 September 2022, or later found to be entitled to tax credits for this period
- for DWP claimants eligible for the £324 payment, in a small minority of complex circumstances, households may be paid after 23 November 2022 – for example, if they were deemed unable to claim certain benefits, but won backdated entitlement on appeal, or where payments were rejected due to invalid account details. The DWP will seek to contact claimants directly in the very small minority of cases where there are issues or delays
- this payment will be tax-free, will not count towards the benefit cap, and will not have any impact on existing benefit awards
- these payments are being delivered in two slightly different amounts of £326 and £324. The distinct value relates to a specific qualifying period, so it is simpler to determine if a payee received the correct payments, reducing the fraud risk of people who claim not to have had one of the specific two payments, as DWP will be able to clearly track those who have
Table 1 : Estimated number of families eligible for the means-tested benefit cost of living payment by region
| Region | Cases |
|---|---|
| London | 1,224,000 |
| South West | 580,000 |
| South East | 846,000 |
| Eastern | 627,000 |
| West Midlands | 792,000 |
| East Midlands | 551,000 |
| North West | 1,048,000 |
| North East | 397,000 |
| Yorkshire and The Humber | 722,000 |
| Wales | 426,000 |
| Scotland | 689,000 |
| Northern Ireland | 309,000 |
| Total | 8,213,000 |
Note for table 1: Estimates rounded to the nearest 1,000. Numbers may not add up due to rounding. For a small number of claimants, it has not been possible to determine a region. They have still been included in the totals.
Table 2: Estimated number of families eligible for the means-tested benefit cost of living payment by Westminster parliamentary constituency
| Parliamentary constituency | Families eligible for the means-tested payment |
|---|---|
| Aberavon | 11,600 |
| Aberconwy | 7,100 |
| Aberdeen North | 13,300 |
| Aberdeen South | 7,700 |
| Airdrie and Shotts | 13,400 |
| Aldershot | 10,500 |
| Aldridge-Brownhills | 8,300 |
| Altrincham and Sale West | 7,000 |
| Alyn and Deeside | 9,200 |
| Amber Valley | 10,700 |
| Angus | 11,000 |
| Arfon | 7,600 |
| Argyll and Bute | 9,600 |
| Arundel and South Downs | 6,700 |
| Ashfield | 14,300 |
| Ashford | 13,200 |
| Ashton-under-Lyne | 16,100 |
| Aylesbury | 10,300 |
| Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock | 14,100 |
| Banbury | 10,900 |
| Banff and Buchan | 9,500 |
| Barking | 24,900 |
| Barnsley Central | 13,800 |
| Barnsley East | 14,700 |
| Barrow and Furness | 10,300 |
| Basildon and Billericay | 11,300 |
| Basingstoke | 10,300 |
| Bassetlaw | 12,800 |
| Bath | 8,000 |
| Batley and Spen | 16,200 |
| Battersea | 11,700 |
| Beaconsfield | 6,300 |
| Beckenham | 6,000 |
| Bedford | 15,000 |
| Belfast East | 14,600 |
| Belfast North | 26,600 |
| Belfast South | 13,900 |
| Belfast West | 27,100 |
| Bermondsey and Old Southwark | 22,100 |
| Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk | 10,600 |
| Berwick-upon-Tweed | 7,600 |
| Bethnal Green and Bow | 26,000 |
| Beverley and Holderness | 9,000 |
| Bexhill and Battle | 10,500 |
| Bexleyheath and Crayford | 9,400 |
| Birkenhead | 19,100 |
| Birmingham, Edgbaston | 15,900 |
| Birmingham, Erdington | 23,400 |
| Birmingham, Hall Green | 24,600 |
| Birmingham, Hodge Hill | 30,600 |
| Birmingham, Ladywood | 32,400 |
| Birmingham, Northfield | 19,200 |
| Birmingham, Perry Barr | 22,900 |
| Birmingham, Selly Oak | 15,400 |
| Birmingham, Yardley | 23,400 |
| Bishop Auckland | 13,400 |
| Blackburn | 22,600 |
| Blackley and Broughton | 28,800 |
| Blackpool North and Cleveleys | 14,900 |
| Blackpool South | 18,400 |
| Blaenau Gwent | 12,000 |
| Blaydon | 10,900 |
| Blyth Valley | 11,800 |
| Bognor Regis and Littlehampton | 13,200 |
| Bolsover | 12,600 |
| Bolton North East | 17,700 |
| Bolton South East | 20,500 |
| Bolton West | 11,700 |
| Bootle | 21,000 |
| Boston and Skegness | 17,100 |
| Bosworth | 9,100 |
| Bournemouth East | 14,600 |
| Bournemouth West | 14,000 |
| Bracknell | 8,400 |
| Bradford East | 25,600 |
| Bradford South | 19,800 |
| Bradford West | 26,400 |
| Braintree | 9,300 |
| Brecon and Radnorshire | 7,200 |
| Brent Central | 30,600 |
| Brent North | 19,000 |
| Brentford and Isleworth | 17,500 |
| Brentwood and Ongar | 7,300 |
| Bridgend | 10,400 |
| Bridgwater and West Somerset | 13,000 |
| Brigg and Goole | 9,000 |
| Brighton, Kemptown | 14,400 |
| Brighton, Pavilion | 11,900 |
| Bristol East | 13,200 |
| Bristol North West | 12,400 |
| Bristol South | 16,600 |
| Bristol West | 14,400 |
| Broadland | 8,000 |
| Bromley and Chislehurst | 9,400 |
| Bromsgrove | 7,500 |
| Broxbourne | 11,200 |
| Broxtowe | 8,500 |
| Buckingham | 6,300 |
| Burnley | 16,300 |
| Burton | 12,300 |
| Bury North | 12,000 |
| Bury South | 13,500 |
| Bury St Edmunds | 9,600 |
| Caerphilly | 13,000 |
| Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross | 7,600 |
| Calder Valley | 11,400 |
| Camberwell and Peckham | 23,300 |
| Camborne and Redruth | 13,000 |
| Cambridge | 9,800 |
| Cannock Chase | 11,700 |
| Canterbury | 11,100 |
| Cardiff Central | 10,500 |
| Cardiff North | 7,600 |
| Cardiff South and Penarth | 18,600 |
| Cardiff West | 15,100 |
| Carlisle | 10,900 |
| Carmarthen East and Dinefwr | 8,800 |
| Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire | 9,700 |
| Carshalton and Wallington | 11,600 |
| Castle Point | 8,400 |
| Central Ayrshire | 12,700 |
| Central Devon | 8,500 |
| Central Suffolk and North Ipswich | 7,900 |
| Ceredigion | 8,500 |
| Charnwood | 7,800 |
| Chatham and Aylesford | 12,800 |
| Cheadle | 6,500 |
| Chelmsford | 9,400 |
| Chelsea and Fulham | 11,000 |
| Cheltenham | 9,900 |
| Chesham and Amersham | 5,500 |
| Chesterfield | 12,800 |
| Chichester | 9,500 |
| Chingford and Woodford Green | 10,400 |
| Chippenham | 8,500 |
| Chipping Barnet | 12,500 |
| Chorley | 10,800 |
| Christchurch | 7,200 |
| Cities of London and Westminster | 11,900 |
| City of Chester | 10,400 |
| City of Durham | 9,800 |
| Clacton | 15,200 |
| Cleethorpes | 11,100 |
| Clwyd South | 9,400 |
| Clwyd West | 9,900 |
| Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill | 14,100 |
| Colchester | 13,900 |
| Colne Valley | 12,200 |
| Congleton | 7,900 |
| Copeland | 8,400 |
| Corby | 13,300 |
| Coventry North East | 21,200 |
| Coventry North West | 13,900 |
| Coventry South | 13,700 |
| Crawley | 14,100 |
| Crewe and Nantwich | 12,200 |
| Croydon Central | 19,100 |
| Croydon North | 26,600 |
| Croydon South | 11,400 |
| Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East | 11,600 |
| Cynon Valley | 12,300 |
| Dagenham and Rainham | 17,000 |
| Darlington | 13,900 |
| Dartford | 11,100 |
| Daventry | 7,700 |
| Delyn | 8,300 |
| Denton and Reddish | 12,600 |
| Derby North | 13,300 |
| Derby South | 21,700 |
| Derbyshire Dales | 5,600 |
| Devizes | 7,500 |
| Dewsbury | 15,600 |
| Don Valley | 12,900 |
| Doncaster Central | 17,100 |
| Doncaster North | 15,500 |
| Dover | 13,000 |
| Dudley North | 13,700 |
| Dudley South | 11,000 |
| Dulwich and West Norwood | 16,600 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 12,700 |
| Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale | 9,300 |
| Dundee East | 11,400 |
| Dundee West | 14,700 |
| Dunfermline and West Fife | 11,100 |
| Dwyfor Meirionnydd | 6,800 |
| Ealing Central and Acton | 16,900 |
| Ealing North | 19,500 |
| Easington | 15,200 |
| East Antrim | 12,300 |
| East Devon | 9,300 |
| East Dunbartonshire | 5,100 |
| East Ham | 30,000 |
| East Hampshire | 6,700 |
| East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow | 11,200 |
| East Londonderry | 17,000 |
| East Lothian | 11,000 |
| East Renfrewshire | 7,300 |
| East Surrey | 8,100 |
| East Worthing and Shoreham | 10,100 |
| East Yorkshire | 11,700 |
| Eastbourne | 15,200 |
| Eastleigh | 9,300 |
| Eddisbury | 8,600 |
| Edinburgh East | 12,800 |
| Edinburgh North and Leith | 11,800 |
| Edinburgh South | 6,900 |
| Edinburgh South West | 11,000 |
| Edinburgh West | 8,000 |
| Edmonton | 25,600 |
| Ellesmere Port and Neston | 10,800 |
| Elmet and Rothwell | 7,700 |
| Eltham | 12,400 |
| Enfield North | 18,500 |
| Enfield, Southgate | 12,300 |
| Epping Forest | 9,300 |
| Epsom and Ewell | 6,500 |
| Erewash | 11,600 |
| Erith and Thamesmead | 18,200 |
| Esher and Walton | 7,000 |
| Exeter | 11,800 |
| Falkirk | 13,400 |
| Fareham | 6,500 |
| Faversham and Mid Kent | 9,700 |
| Feltham and Heston | 21,200 |
| Fermanagh and South Tyrone | 16,400 |
| Filton and Bradley Stoke | 8,200 |
| Finchley and Golders Green | 15,700 |
| Folkestone and Hythe | 14,600 |
| Forest of Dean | 8,800 |
| Foyle | 24,900 |
| Fylde | 8,500 |
| Gainsborough | 10,500 |
| Garston and Halewood | 17,200 |
| Gedling | 10,400 |
| Gateshead | 17,000 |
| Gillingham and Rainham | 11,900 |
| Glasgow Central | 18,500 |
| Glasgow East | 20,900 |
| Glasgow North | 10,600 |
| Glasgow North East | 20,300 |
| Glasgow North West | 16,100 |
| Glasgow South | 13,800 |
| Glasgow South West | 18,900 |
| Glenrothes | 14,600 |
| Gloucester | 15,200 |
| Gordon | 6,300 |
| Gosport | 10,200 |
| Gower | 8,200 |
| Grantham and Stamford | 10,900 |
| Gravesham | 12,700 |
| Great Grimsby | 16,200 |
| Great Yarmouth | 16,600 |
| Greenwich and Woolwich | 19,600 |
| Guildford | 6,800 |
| Hackney North and Stoke Newington | 25,900 |
| Hackney South and Shoreditch | 24,200 |
| Halesowen and Rowley Regis | 12,100 |
| Halifax | 17,600 |
| Haltemprice and Howden | 5,700 |
| Halton | 15,200 |
| Hammersmith | 19,000 |
| Hampstead and Kilburn | 17,200 |
| Harborough | 8,600 |
| Harlow | 12,900 |
| Harrogate and Knaresborough | 8,200 |
| Harrow East | 12,800 |
| Harrow West | 14,100 |
| Hartlepool | 17,500 |
| Harwich and North Essex | 8,400 |
| Hastings and Rye | 18,600 |
| Havant | 11,800 |
| Hayes and Harlington | 18,700 |
| Hazel Grove | 7,900 |
| Hemel Hempstead | 11,200 |
| Hemsworth | 13,700 |
| Hendon | 19,800 |
| Henley | 5,500 |
| Hereford and South Herefordshire | 10,200 |
| Hertford and Stortford | 8,000 |
| Hertsmere | 10,000 |
| Hexham | 5,500 |
| Heywood and Middleton | 17,000 |
| High Peak | 8,700 |
| Hitchin and Harpenden | 6,000 |
| Holborn and St Pancras | 21,700 |
| Hornchurch and Upminster | 11,000 |
| Hornsey and Wood Green | 17,200 |
| Horsham | 7,300 |
| Houghton and Sunderland South | 14,900 |
| Hove | 12,600 |
| Huddersfield | 15,900 |
| Huntingdon | 9,300 |
| Hyndburn | 15,700 |
| Ilford North | 13,000 |
| Ilford South | 22,800 |
| Inverclyde | 13,300 |
| Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey | 11,000 |
| Ipswich | 16,100 |
| Isle of Wight | 18,300 |
| Islington North | 18,700 |
| Islington South and Finsbury | 17,900 |
| Islwyn | 10,500 |
| Jarrow | 12,600 |
| Keighley | 12,500 |
| Kenilworth and Southam | 5,300 |
| Kensington | 14,100 |
| Kettering | 10,800 |
| Kilmarnock and Loudoun | 14,400 |
| Kingston and Surbiton | 11,100 |
| Kingston upon Hull East | 16,200 |
| Kingston upon Hull North | 17,000 |
| Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle | 17,100 |
| Kingswood | 7,700 |
| Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath | 14,700 |
| Knowsley | 23,000 |
| Lagan Valley | 12,400 |
| Lanark and Hamilton East | 13,400 |
| Lancaster and Fleetwood | 10,400 |
| Leeds Central | 26,600 |
| Leeds East | 19,700 |
| Leeds North East | 11,100 |
| Leeds North West | 6,600 |
| Leeds West | 16,500 |
| Leicester East | 21,100 |
| Leicester South | 20,100 |
| Leicester West | 20,000 |
| Leigh | 13,900 |
| Lewes | 8,800 |
| Lewisham East | 17,400 |
| Lewisham West and Penge | 17,200 |
| Lewisham, Deptford | 20,100 |
| Leyton and Wanstead | 15,300 |
| Lichfield | 7,700 |
| Lincoln | 15,100 |
| Linlithgow and East Falkirk | 14,500 |
| Liverpool, Riverside | 20,800 |
| Liverpool, Walton | 23,800 |
| Liverpool, Wavertree | 17,100 |
| Liverpool, West Derby | 19,900 |
| Livingston | 14,100 |
| Llanelli | 12,500 |
| Loughborough | 10,000 |
| Louth and Horncastle | 12,600 |
| Ludlow | 7,700 |
| Luton North | 14,500 |
| Luton South | 19,700 |
| Macclesfield | 7,700 |
| Maidenhead | 6,600 |
| Maidstone and The Weald | 10,800 |
| Makerfield | 11,300 |
| Maldon | 7,100 |
| Manchester Central | 27,500 |
| Manchester, Gorton | 24,100 |
| Manchester, Withington | 12,500 |
| Mansfield | 15,300 |
| Meon Valley | 7,000 |
| Meriden | 14,000 |
| Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney | 13,400 |
| Mid Bedfordshire | 7,600 |
| Mid Dorset and North Poole | 6,400 |
| Mid Derbyshire | 6,000 |
| Mid Norfolk | 9,700 |
| Mid Sussex | 7,300 |
| Mid Ulster | 16,000 |
| Mid Worcestershire | 9,600 |
| Middlesbrough | 21,600 |
| Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland | 13,700 |
| Midlothian | 10,300 |
| Milton Keynes North | 14,500 |
| Milton Keynes South | 15,600 |
| Mitcham and Morden | 16,000 |
| Mole Valley | 5,600 |
| Monmouth | 7,800 |
| Montgomeryshire | 6,800 |
| Moray | 9,200 |
| Morecambe and Lunesdale | 12,800 |
| Morley and Outwood | 9,700 |
| Motherwell and Wishaw | 15,500 |
| Na h-Eileanan an Iar | 2,900 |
| Neath | 11,100 |
| New Forest East | 7,100 |
| New Forest West | 6,700 |
| Newark | 9,500 |
| Newbury | 8,000 |
| Newcastle upon Tyne Central | 19,100 |
| Newcastle upon Tyne East | 13,800 |
| Newcastle upon Tyne North | 12,500 |
| Newcastle-under-Lyme | 9,800 |
| Newport East | 12,000 |
| Newport West | 13,300 |
| Newry and Armagh | 20,400 |
| Newton Abbot | 9,800 |
| Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford | 16,200 |
| North Antrim | 16,800 |
| North Ayrshire and Arran | 14,800 |
| North Cornwall | 10,900 |
| North Devon | 11,100 |
| North Dorset | 7,500 |
| North Down | 10,500 |
| North Durham | 13,100 |
| North East Bedfordshire | 8,700 |
| North East Cambridgeshire | 14,100 |
| North East Derbyshire | 9,500 |
| North East Fife | 6,300 |
| North East Hampshire | 5,000 |
| North East Hertfordshire | 8,100 |
| North East Somerset | 7,500 |
| North Herefordshire | 7,800 |
| North Norfolk | 8,900 |
| North Shropshire | 10,500 |
| North Somerset | 6,500 |
| North Swindon | 11,600 |
| North Thanet | 14,300 |
| North Tyneside | 16,100 |
| North Warwickshire | 10,400 |
| North West Cambridgeshire | 13,600 |
| North West Durham | 12,800 |
| North West Hampshire | 8,300 |
| North West Leicestershire | 8,900 |
| North West Norfolk | 11,300 |
| North Wiltshire | 6,500 |
| Northampton North | 11,500 |
| Northampton South | 14,100 |
| Norwich North | 10,900 |
| Norwich South | 13,900 |
| Nottingham East | 19,600 |
| Nottingham North | 21,900 |
| Nottingham South | 13,900 |
| Nuneaton | 12,200 |
| Ochil and South Perthshire | 11,000 |
| Ogmore | 11,300 |
| Old Bexley and Sidcup | 6,600 |
| Oldham East and Saddleworth | 18,100 |
| Oldham West and Royton | 20,600 |
| Orkney and Shetland | 3,600 |
| Orpington | 7,000 |
| Oxford East | 12,100 |
| Oxford West and Abingdon | 6,400 |
| Paisley and Renfrewshire North | 10,800 |
| Paisley and Renfrewshire South | 13,000 |
| Pendle | 15,000 |
| Penistone and Stocksbridge | 8,200 |
| Penrith and The Border | 6,700 |
| Perth and North Perthshire | 10,600 |
| Peterborough | 22,700 |
| Plymouth, Moor View | 14,000 |
| Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport | 18,100 |
| Pontypridd | 9,400 |
| Poole | 10,200 |
| Poplar and Limehouse | 27,000 |
| Portsmouth North | 12,000 |
| Portsmouth South | 15,800 |
| Preseli Pembrokeshire | 10,400 |
| Preston | 18,400 |
| Pudsey | 7,600 |
| Putney | 10,700 |
| Rayleigh and Wickford | 6,800 |
| Reading East | 10,000 |
| Reading West | 12,400 |
| Redcar | 14,900 |
| Redditch | 10,500 |
| Reigate | 7,200 |
| Rhondda | 12,600 |
| Ribble Valley | 7,300 |
| Richmond (Yorks) | 8,000 |
| Richmond Park | 8,100 |
| Rochdale | 21,800 |
| Rochester and Strood | 12,500 |
| Rochford and Southend East | 17,200 |
| Romford | 11,300 |
| Romsey and Southampton North | 6,400 |
| Ross, Skye and Lochaber | 6,500 |
| Rossendale and Darwen | 12,600 |
| Rother Valley | 10,800 |
| Rotherham | 17,200 |
| Rugby | 9,600 |
| Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner | 7,400 |
| Runnymede and Weybridge | 7,400 |
| Rushcliffe | 6,300 |
| Rutherglen and Hamilton West | 16,300 |
| Rutland and Melton | 7,400 |
| Saffron Walden | 7,400 |
| Salford and Eccles | 19,600 |
| Salisbury | 8,500 |
| Scarborough and Whitby | 13,500 |
| Scunthorpe | 12,900 |
| Sedgefield | 12,200 |
| Sefton Central | 7,000 |
| Selby and Ainsty | 7,900 |
| Sevenoaks | 6,900 |
| Sheffield Central | 14,300 |
| Sheffield South East | 14,300 |
| Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough | 22,700 |
| Sheffield, Hallam | 4,600 |
| Sheffield, Heeley | 15,200 |
| Sherwood | 11,200 |
| Shipley | 9,500 |
| Shrewsbury and Atcham | 10,200 |
| Sittingbourne and Sheppey | 15,500 |
| Skipton and Ripon | 7,100 |
| Sleaford and North Hykeham | 9,700 |
| Slough | 19,700 |
| Solihull | 8,000 |
| Somerton and Frome | 9,600 |
| South Antrim | 12,800 |
| South Basildon and East Thurrock | 12,200 |
| South Cambridgeshire | 6,700 |
| South Derbyshire | 9,100 |
| South Dorset | 11,100 |
| South Down | 17,000 |
| South East Cambridgeshire | 8,100 |
| South East Cornwall | 10,100 |
| South Holland and The Deepings | 11,100 |
| South Leicestershire | 8,400 |
| South Norfolk | 8,800 |
| South Northamptonshire | 7,400 |
| South Ribble | 8,600 |
| South Shields | 15,500 |
| South Staffordshire | 8,400 |
| South Suffolk | 7,800 |
| South Swindon | 12,800 |
| South Thanet | 15,600 |
| South West Bedfordshire | 10,300 |
| South West Devon | 6,900 |
| South West Hertfordshire | 6,600 |
| South West Norfolk | 11,200 |
| South West Surrey | 6,100 |
| South West Wiltshire | 9,700 |
| Southampton, Itchen | 14,900 |
| Southampton, Test | 15,800 |
| Southend West | 9,700 |
| Southport | 12,300 |
| Spelthorne | 8,800 |
| St Albans | 7,500 |
| St Austell and Newquay | 13,900 |
| St Helens North | 14,400 |
| St Helens South and Whiston | 16,400 |
| St Ives | 11,000 |
| Stafford | 9,200 |
| Staffordshire Moorlands | 6,300 |
| Stalybridge and Hyde | 14,100 |
| Stevenage | 10,700 |
| Stirling | 8,700 |
| Stockport | 13,700 |
| Stockton North | 15,800 |
| Stockton South | 11,500 |
| Stoke-on-Trent Central | 14,800 |
| Stoke-on-Trent North | 16,200 |
| Stoke-on-Trent South | 13,100 |
| Stone | 6,000 |
| Stourbridge | 10,600 |
| Strangford | 12,500 |
| Stratford-on-Avon | 7,500 |
| Streatham | 17,400 |
| Stretford and Urmston | 13,800 |
| Stroud | 8,700 |
| Suffolk Coastal | 8,800 |
| Sunderland Central | 17,200 |
| Surrey Heath | 6,900 |
| Sutton and Cheam | 8,900 |
| Sutton Coldfield | 7,100 |
| Swansea East | 14,700 |
| Swansea West | 12,100 |
| Tamworth | 10,400 |
| Tatton | 6,300 |
| Taunton Deane | 12,000 |
| Telford | 15,500 |
| Tewkesbury | 8,300 |
| The Cotswolds | 7,000 |
| The Wrekin | 10,300 |
| Thirsk and Malton | 8,300 |
| Thornbury and Yate | 6,300 |
| Thurrock | 16,300 |
| Tiverton and Honiton | 9,800 |
| Tonbridge and Malling | 7,900 |
| Tooting | 11,400 |
| Torbay | 16,300 |
| Torfaen | 13,100 |
| Torridge and West Devon | 10,800 |
| Totnes | 9,800 |
| Tottenham | 31,900 |
| Truro and Falmouth | 10,100 |
| Tunbridge Wells | 8,300 |
| Twickenham | 8,300 |
| Tynemouth | 10,900 |
| Upper Bann | 20,300 |
| Uxbridge and South Ruislip | 11,500 |
| Vale of Clwyd | 12,200 |
| Vale of Glamorgan | 12,800 |
| Vauxhall | 19,100 |
| Wakefield | 13,400 |
| Wallasey | 15,500 |
| Walsall North | 18,700 |
| Walsall South | 19,200 |
| Walthamstow | 19,200 |
| Wansbeck | 11,600 |
| Wantage | 8,600 |
| Warley | 18,200 |
| Warrington North | 12,000 |
| Warrington South | 9,900 |
| Warwick and Leamington | 8,800 |
| Washington and Sunderland West | 14,900 |
| Watford | 12,300 |
| Waveney | 14,500 |
| Wealden | 8,100 |
| Weaver Vale | 10,100 |
| Wellingborough | 12,900 |
| Wells | 11,100 |
| Wentworth and Dearne | 15,100 |
| West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine | 5,100 |
| West Bromwich East | 16,800 |
| West Bromwich West | 17,800 |
| West Dorset | 8,800 |
| West Dunbartonshire | 15,600 |
| West Ham | 33,100 |
| West Lancashire | 11,500 |
| West Suffolk | 10,300 |
| West Tyrone | 17,400 |
| West Worcestershire | 8,400 |
| Westminster North | 18,600 |
| Westmorland and Lonsdale | 6,000 |
| Weston-super-Mare | 14,400 |
| Wigan | 14,600 |
| Wimbledon | 6,700 |
| Winchester | 5,900 |
| Windsor | 6,500 |
| Wirral South | 6,500 |
| Wirral West | 6,800 |
| Witham | 7,900 |
| Witney | 7,500 |
| Woking | 7,900 |
| Wokingham | 6,000 |
| Wolverhampton North East | 17,000 |
| Wolverhampton South East | 18,700 |
| Wolverhampton South West | 13,200 |
| Worcester | 11,300 |
| Workington | 9,700 |
| Worsley and Eccles South | 16,700 |
| Worthing West | 10,500 |
| Wrexham | 9,600 |
| Wycombe | 11,000 |
| Wyre and Preston North | 6,900 |
| Wyre Forest | 12,000 |
| Wythenshawe and Sale East | 19,200 |
| Yeovil | 11,500 |
| Ynys Môn | 9,000 |
| York Central | 10,300 |
| York Outer | 5,300 |
Note for table 2: Estimates rounded to the nearest 100. Numbers may not add up due to rounding. For a small number of claimants, it has not been possible to determine a Parliamentary Constituency. They have still been included in the totals.
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