Press release
7.2 million Cost of Living payments made to low-income families
Over 7.2 million payments of £326 have already been made to help households through the government’s Cost of Living support.
- 7.2 million payments of £326 – worth a total of £2.4 billion – made in first week of Cost of Living support rollout
- Payments mark the first half of the £650 Cost of Living payment for low-income families, with the second half coming in the autumn
- Additional support for disabled people and pensioners will follow later this year
This means £2.4 billion has been paid out to low-income families in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, with the second instalment of £324 arriving later this year.
The first payments were made on 14 July 2022, meaning the government has paid on average over a million families every working day since then.
This is all part of the government’s £37 billion support package for households. Millions will get £1,200 this year to help them with rising costs, including this £650 payment, a £400 grant to help with energy bills, and a £150 Council Tax rebate for the 80% of households in bands A-D.
And in addition to this, nearly 1 in 10 people will get a £150 disability payment this autumn, while over eight million pensioner households could receive an extra £300 through their Winter Fuel Payments in November and December.
Work and Pensions Secretary, Thérèse Coffey said:
This government said that we would protect those on the lowest incomes, and we have delivered what we said with over 7 million households receiving £326 in the last week. There is more help to come for households, with the second half of the £650 payment arriving later this year and further payments for pensioners and disabled people also on the way.
Chancellor of the Exchequer, Nadhim Zahawi said:
I know that people are finding things difficult with rising prices and increasing pressure on household budgets.
That’s why we’re taking action to control inflation and providing immediate help for households. It’s so important that over 7 million vulnerable households have received £326 direct payments so far and there is also more help to come, with 8 million of the most vulnerable households receiving £1,200 of direct support to help with bills over the winter.
In total, over eight million families will be eligible for this payment, with around one million eligible because they receive tax credits and no other eligible benefits. These families will receive their first instalment from HMRC in the autumn, and the second instalment in the winter.
DWP will administer payments for customers on all other eligible means-tested benefits, and no one needs to contact the government or apply for the payment at any stage.
Those who are eligible should look out in their bank accounts for a payment of £326 with the reference “DWP Cost of Living” in their bank accounts. This payment is made automatically, meaning no one has to apply or do anything to receive it.
Eligible claimants who have not received their payment yet should not be concerned, as the DWP expects some payments may take until 31 July 2022 to come through.
Further information
- In a small minority of complex circumstances, claimants may be paid automatically after the end of July – for example, if they were deemed unable to claim certain benefits, but won backdated entitlement on appeal. The DWP will seek to contact claimants directly in the very small minority of cases where there are issues or delays.
- 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 on GOV UK.
- More than 8 million families on means-tested benefits will receive a payment of up to £650 this year, made in two lump sums. This includes all families entitled to a payment of the following benefits: Universal Credit, Income-based Jobseekers Allowance, Income-related Employment and Support Allowance, Income Support, Working Tax Credit, Child Tax Credit and Pension Credit.
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The DWP will make the payment in two lump sums – the first from July, the second from the autumn. Payments from HMRC for those on tax credits only will follow shortly after each to avoid duplicate payments.
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To be eligible for the first lump sum, 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 April 2022 to 25 May 2022
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Income-based JSA, income-related ESA, Income Support or Pension Credit for any day in the period 26 April 2022 to 25 May 2022
- Tax credit-only customers, who will receive the first lump sum in the autumn, must have received a payment, or an annual award of at least £26, of tax credits for any day in the period 26 April 2022 to 25 May 2022.
- The entitlement period for the second lump sum will be announced soon.
- This payment will be tax-free, will not count towards the benefit cap, and will not have any impact on existing benefit awards.
- These lump sums will be delivered in two slightly different payments 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.
- We estimate that around 23% of families in the UK will be eligible for the first lump sum of the means-tested benefit Cost of Living payment.
- DWP will process every eligible claimant’s payment by the end of this month, and over 99% of the over seven million claimants being paid by DWP will receive their money this month, including nearly 300,000 in Northern Ireland. There will be some cases – such as those who were not deemed entitled for the qualifying period, but then gained entitlement upon appeal – that will be paid after July, but this is unavoidable, and they will be paid as soon as possible.
- DWP management information is derived from actual volumes of automated payments made by the DWP Central Payment System rounded to the nearest hundred thousand. Numbers may not add up due to rounding.
- Dates for the additional payments to disabled people will be confirmed soon.
- Please note that the tables below measure slightly different groups – this is because entitlement to means-tested benefits is done by family, whereas disability entitlement is done for individuals (so one family could have multiple disability payments).
Table 1 – Estimated number of families eligible for the means-tested benefit Cost of Living payment by region
| Region[1] | Cases | Proportion |
|---|---|---|
| London | 1,224,000 | 15% |
| South West | 580,000 | 7% |
| South East | 846,000 | 10% |
| Eastern | 627,000 | 8% |
| West Midlands | 792,000 | 10% |
| East Midlands | 551,000 | 7% |
| North West | 1,048,000 | 13% |
| North East | 397,000 | 5% |
| Yorkshire and The Humber | 722,000 | 9% |
| Wales | 426,000 | 5% |
| Scotland | 689,000 | 8% |
| Northern Ireland | 309,000 | 4% |
| Total | 8,213,000 | 100% |
| [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 individuals eligible for the £150 disability Cost of Living payment by region
| Region[1] | Cases | Proportion |
|---|---|---|
| London | 608,000 | 10% |
| South West | 491,000 | 8% |
| South East | 681,000 | 11% |
| Eastern | 498,000 | 8% |
| West Midlands | 566,000 | 9% |
| East Midlands | 451,000 | 7% |
| North West | 820,000 | 13% |
| North East | 325,000 | 5% |
| Yorkshire and The Humber | 535,000 | 8% |
| Wales | 407,000 | 6% |
| Scotland | 607,000 | 10% |
| Northern Ireland | 315,000 | 5% |
| Total | 6,303,000 | 100% |
| [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. |
[2] 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 3 – Estimated number of families eligible for the means-tested benefit Cost of Living payment and number of individuals eligible for the disability Cost of Living payment by Westminster parliamentary constituency
| Parliamentary constituency[1] | Families eligible for the means-tested payment | Individuals eligible for the disability payment |
|---|---|---|
| Aberavon | 11,600 | 12,100 |
| Aberconwy | 7,100 | 6,800 |
| Aberdeen North | 13,300 | 9,300 |
| Aberdeen South | 7,700 | 5,800 |
| Airdrie and Shotts | 13,400 | 13,300 |
| Aldershot | 10,500 | 6,800 |
| Aldridge-Brownhills | 8,300 | 8,300 |
| Altrincham and Sale West | 7,000 | 6,600 |
| Alyn and Deeside | 9,200 | 8,400 |
| Amber Valley | 10,700 | 10,200 |
| Angus | 11,000 | 9,100 |
| Arfon | 7,600 | 6,100 |
| Argyll and Bute | 9,600 | 9,400 |
| Arundel and South Downs | 6,700 | 6,800 |
| Ashfield | 14,300 | 13,700 |
| Ashford | 13,200 | 10,800 |
| Ashton-under-Lyne | 16,100 | 11,100 |
| Aylesbury | 10,300 | 8,000 |
| Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock | 14,100 | 12,700 |
| Banbury | 10,900 | 8,800 |
| Banff and Buchan | 9,500 | 8,500 |
| Barking | 24,900 | 10,700 |
| Barnsley Central | 13,800 | 12,000 |
| Barnsley East | 14,700 | 13,700 |
| Barrow and Furness | 10,300 | 10,700 |
| Basildon and Billericay | 11,300 | 8,100 |
| Basingstoke | 10,300 | 7,900 |
| Bassetlaw | 12,800 | 12,000 |
| Bath | 8,000 | 6,400 |
| Batley and Spen | 16,200 | 10,100 |
| Battersea | 11,700 | 5,800 |
| Beaconsfield | 6,300 | 5,700 |
| Beckenham | 6,000 | 5,100 |
| Bedford | 15,000 | 9,100 |
| Belfast East | 14,600 | 14,900 |
| Belfast North | 26,600 | 24,000 |
| Belfast South | 13,900 | 13,500 |
| Belfast West | 27,100 | 24,700 |
| Bermondsey and Old Southwark | 22,100 | 10,400 |
| Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk | 10,600 | 8,800 |
| Berwick-upon-Tweed | 7,600 | 7,600 |
| Bethnal Green and Bow | 26,000 | 11,100 |
| Beverley and Holderness | 9,000 | 9,200 |
| Bexhill and Battle | 10,500 | 10,400 |
| Bexleyheath and Crayford | 9,400 | 7,800 |
| Birkenhead | 19,100 | 15,100 |
| Birmingham, Edgbaston | 15,900 | 9,200 |
| Birmingham, Erdington | 23,400 | 13,600 |
| Birmingham, Hall Green | 24,600 | 11,400 |
| Birmingham, Hodge Hill | 30,600 | 14,100 |
| Birmingham, Ladywood | 32,400 | 11,700 |
| Birmingham, Northfield | 19,200 | 13,100 |
| Birmingham, Perry Barr | 22,900 | 10,700 |
| Birmingham, Selly Oak | 15,400 | 10,000 |
| Birmingham, Yardley | 23,400 | 12,700 |
| Bishop Auckland | 13,400 | 12,000 |
| Blackburn | 22,600 | 13,100 |
| Blackley and Broughton | 28,800 | 14,900 |
| Blackpool North and Cleveleys | 14,900 | 12,600 |
| Blackpool South | 18,400 | 12,300 |
| Blaenau Gwent | 12,000 | 11,800 |
| Blaydon | 10,900 | 10,000 |
| Blyth Valley | 11,800 | 10,400 |
| Bognor Regis and Littlehampton | 13,200 | 10,700 |
| Bolsover | 12,600 | 13,700 |
| Bolton North East | 17,700 | 11,100 |
| Bolton South East | 20,500 | 12,400 |
| Bolton West | 11,700 | 9,800 |
| Bootle | 21,000 | 15,800 |
| Boston and Skegness | 17,100 | 12,900 |
| Bosworth | 9,100 | 8,700 |
| Bournemouth East | 14,600 | 9,000 |
| Bournemouth West | 14,000 | 9,400 |
| Bracknell | 8,400 | 6,700 |
| Bradford East | 25,600 | 12,300 |
| Bradford South | 19,800 | 11,600 |
| Bradford West | 26,400 | 12,200 |
| Braintree | 9,300 | 7,900 |
| Brecon and Radnorshire | 7,200 | 7,600 |
| Brent Central | 30,600 | 12,100 |
| Brent North | 19,000 | 8,500 |
| Brentford and Isleworth | 17,500 | 7,900 |
| Brentwood and Ongar | 7,300 | 6,400 |
| Bridgend | 10,400 | 11,300 |
| Bridgwater and West Somerset | 13,000 | 10,800 |
| Brigg and Goole | 9,000 | 8,300 |
| Brighton, Kemptown | 14,400 | 10,700 |
| Brighton, Pavilion | 11,900 | 7,100 |
| Bristol East | 13,200 | 9,500 |
| Bristol North West | 12,400 | 10,200 |
| Bristol South | 16,600 | 12,700 |
| Bristol West | 14,400 | 7,000 |
| Broadland | 8,000 | 8,200 |
| Bromley and Chislehurst | 9,400 | 6,900 |
| Bromsgrove | 7,500 | 7,600 |
| Broxbourne | 11,200 | 8,000 |
| Broxtowe | 8,500 | 8,100 |
| Buckingham | 6,300 | 6,300 |
| Burnley | 16,300 | 11,200 |
| Burton | 12,300 | 8,900 |
| Bury North | 12,000 | 8,900 |
| Bury South | 13,500 | 10,500 |
| Bury St Edmunds | 9,600 | 8,900 |
| Caerphilly | 13,000 | 13,500 |
| Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross | 7,600 | 7,300 |
| Calder Valley | 11,400 | 8,500 |
| Camberwell and Peckham | 23,300 | 10,200 |
| Camborne and Redruth | 13,000 | 10,000 |
| Cambridge | 9,800 | 6,200 |
| Cannock Chase | 11,700 | 10,700 |
| Canterbury | 11,100 | 9,400 |
| Cardiff Central | 10,500 | 6,900 |
| Cardiff North | 7,600 | 7,800 |
| Cardiff South and Penarth | 18,600 | 13,400 |
| Cardiff West | 15,100 | 11,200 |
| Carlisle | 10,900 | 9,500 |
| Carmarthen East and Dinefwr | 8,800 | 9,900 |
| Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire | 9,700 | 9,600 |
| Carshalton and Wallington | 11,600 | 7,900 |
| Castle Point | 8,400 | 8,400 |
| Central Ayrshire | 12,700 | 11,400 |
| Central Devon | 8,500 | 7,900 |
| Central Suffolk and North Ipswich | 7,900 | 7,900 |
| Ceredigion | 8,500 | 7,800 |
| Charnwood | 7,800 | 7,400 |
| Chatham and Aylesford | 12,800 | 9,500 |
| Cheadle | 6,500 | 7,300 |
| Chelmsford | 9,400 | 7,500 |
| Chelsea and Fulham | 11,000 | 5,600 |
| Cheltenham | 9,900 | 7,200 |
| Chesham and Amersham | 5,500 | 5,000 |
| Chesterfield | 12,800 | 12,200 |
| Chichester | 9,500 | 8,400 |
| Chingford and Woodford Green | 10,400 | 6,700 |
| Chippenham | 8,500 | 8,200 |
| Chipping Barnet | 12,500 | 7,600 |
| Chorley | 10,800 | 9,600 |
| Christchurch | 7,200 | 8,100 |
| Cities of London and Westminster | 11,900 | 6,200 |
| City of Chester | 10,400 | 8,700 |
| City of Durham | 9,800 | 10,100 |
| Clacton | 15,200 | 14,900 |
| Cleethorpes | 11,100 | 9,700 |
| Clwyd South | 9,400 | 8,500 |
| Clwyd West | 9,900 | 10,100 |
| Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill | 14,100 | 14,000 |
| Colchester | 13,900 | 10,600 |
| Colne Valley | 12,200 | 9,200 |
| Congleton | 7,900 | 8,500 |
| Copeland | 8,400 | 9,300 |
| Corby | 13,300 | 10,900 |
| Coventry North East | 21,200 | 12,600 |
| Coventry North West | 13,900 | 9,800 |
| Coventry South | 13,700 | 9,200 |
| Crawley | 14,100 | 8,500 |
| Crewe and Nantwich | 12,200 | 10,100 |
| Croydon Central | 19,100 | 10,200 |
| Croydon North | 26,600 | 11,200 |
| Croydon South | 11,400 | 7,800 |
| Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East | 11,600 | 11,500 |
| Cynon Valley | 12,300 | 12,100 |
| Dagenham and Rainham | 17,000 | 9,300 |
| Darlington | 13,900 | 9,900 |
| Dartford | 11,100 | 8,600 |
| Daventry | 7,700 | 7,000 |
| Delyn | 8,300 | 8,300 |
| Denton and Reddish | 12,600 | 9,800 |
| Derby North | 13,300 | 10,200 |
| Derby South | 21,700 | 13,000 |
| Derbyshire Dales | 5,600 | 6,300 |
| Devizes | 7,500 | 6,700 |
| Dewsbury | 15,600 | 10,100 |
| Don Valley | 12,900 | 11,900 |
| Doncaster Central | 17,100 | 11,500 |
| Doncaster North | 15,500 | 12,300 |
| Dover | 13,000 | 11,400 |
| Dudley North | 13,700 | 9,600 |
| Dudley South | 11,000 | 8,500 |
| Dulwich and West Norwood | 16,600 | 7,800 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 12,700 | 12,600 |
| Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale | 9,300 | 9,600 |
| Dundee East | 11,400 | 10,200 |
| Dundee West | 14,700 | 11,400 |
| Dunfermline and West Fife | 11,100 | 9,600 |
| Dwyfor Meirionnydd | 6,800 | 6,100 |
| Ealing Central and Acton | 16,900 | 7,100 |
| Ealing North | 19,500 | 8,800 |
| Ealing, Southall | 16,600 | 7,700 |
| Easington | 15,200 | 14,000 |
| East Antrim | 12,300 | 13,800 |
| East Devon | 9,300 | 9,300 |
| East Dunbartonshire | 5,100 | 7,000 |
| East Ham | 30,000 | 11,000 |
| East Hampshire | 6,700 | 6,000 |
| East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow | 11,200 | 11,800 |
| East Londonderry | 17,000 | 16,800 |
| East Lothian | 11,000 | 9,800 |
| East Renfrewshire | 7,300 | 8,900 |
| East Surrey | 8,100 | 7,400 |
| East Worthing and Shoreham | 10,100 | 8,800 |
| East Yorkshire | 11,700 | 10,500 |
| Eastbourne | 15,200 | 12,200 |
| Eastleigh | 9,300 | 8,300 |
| Eddisbury | 8,600 | 8,700 |
| Edinburgh East | 12,800 | 9,300 |
| Edinburgh North and Leith | 11,800 | 7,600 |
| Edinburgh South | 6,900 | 6,000 |
| Edinburgh South West | 11,000 | 8,200 |
| Edinburgh West | 8,000 | 7,300 |
| Edmonton | 25,600 | 10,500 |
| Ellesmere Port and Neston | 10,800 | 10,200 |
| Elmet and Rothwell | 7,700 | 8,500 |
| Eltham | 12,400 | 8,200 |
| Enfield North | 18,500 | 9,100 |
| Enfield, Southgate | 12,300 | 6,600 |
| Epping Forest | 9,300 | 6,900 |
| Epsom and Ewell | 6,500 | 6,500 |
| Erewash | 11,600 | 9,700 |
| Erith and Thamesmead | 18,200 | 9,900 |
| Esher and Walton | 7,000 | 5,900 |
| Exeter | 11,800 | 9,600 |
| Falkirk | 13,400 | 12,500 |
| Fareham | 6,500 | 6,600 |
| Faversham and Mid Kent | 9,700 | 8,500 |
| Feltham and Heston | 21,200 | 9,700 |
| Fermanagh and South Tyrone | 16,400 | 16,400 |
| Filton and Bradley Stoke | 8,200 | 7,500 |
| Finchley and Golders Green | 15,700 | 7,700 |
| Folkestone and Hythe | 14,600 | 13,900 |
| Forest of Dean | 8,800 | 8,300 |
| Foyle | 24,900 | 23,000 |
| Fylde | 8,500 | 9,100 |
| Gainsborough | 10,500 | 10,300 |
| Garston and Halewood | 17,200 | 15,100 |
| Gateshead | 17,000 | 12,200 |
| Gedling | 10,400 | 9,200 |
| Gillingham and Rainham | 11,900 | 9,000 |
| Glasgow Central | 18,500 | 11,400 |
| Glasgow East | 20,900 | 17,200 |
| Glasgow North | 10,600 | 7,600 |
| Glasgow North East | 20,300 | 15,500 |
| Glasgow North West | 16,100 | 12,400 |
| Glasgow South | 13,800 | 11,100 |
| Glasgow South West | 18,900 | 15,000 |
| Glenrothes | 14,600 | 12,400 |
| Gloucester | 15,200 | 11,100 |
| Gordon | 6,300 | 6,200 |
| Gosport | 10,200 | 8,700 |
| Gower | 8,200 | 10,000 |
| Grantham and Stamford | 10,900 | 9,400 |
| Gravesham | 12,700 | 9,400 |
| Great Grimsby | 16,200 | 10,200 |
| Great Yarmouth | 16,600 | 12,800 |
| Greenwich and Woolwich | 19,600 | 9,000 |
| Guildford | 6,800 | 5,800 |
| Hackney North and Stoke Newington | 25,900 | 11,100 |
| Hackney South and Shoreditch | 24,200 | 11,400 |
| Halesowen and Rowley Regis | 12,100 | 9,400 |
| Halifax | 17,600 | 10,700 |
| Haltemprice and Howden | 5,700 | 6,500 |
| Halton | 15,200 | 13,300 |
| Hammersmith | 19,000 | 8,500 |
| Hampstead and Kilburn | 17,200 | 8,400 |
| Harborough | 8,600 | 8,200 |
| Harlow | 12,900 | 8,300 |
| Harrogate and Knaresborough | 8,200 | 7,300 |
| Harrow East | 12,800 | 7,300 |
| Harrow West | 14,100 | 7,000 |
| Hartlepool | 17,500 | 14,000 |
| Harwich and North Essex | 8,400 | 9,000 |
| Hastings and Rye | 18,600 | 13,000 |
| Havant | 11,800 | 9,700 |
| Hayes and Harlington | 18,700 | 8,800 |
| Hazel Grove | 7,900 | 8,100 |
| Hemel Hempstead | 11,200 | 8,200 |
| Hemsworth | 13,700 | 13,100 |
| Hendon | 19,800 | 9,300 |
| Henley | 5,500 | 5,400 |
| Hereford and South Herefordshire | 10,200 | 8,900 |
| Hertford and Stortford | 8,000 | 6,400 |
| Hertsmere | 10,000 | 7,500 |
| Hexham | 5,500 | 6,200 |
| Heywood and Middleton | 17,000 | 12,400 |
| High Peak | 8,700 | 8,200 |
| Hitchin and Harpenden | 6,000 | 5,700 |
| Holborn and St Pancras | 21,700 | 11,900 |
| Hornchurch and Upminster | 11,000 | 8,500 |
| Hornsey and Wood Green | 17,200 | 8,000 |
| Horsham | 7,300 | 6,800 |
| Houghton and Sunderland South | 14,900 | 13,500 |
| Hove | 12,600 | 8,300 |
| Huddersfield | 15,900 | 9,900 |
| Huntingdon | 9,300 | 8,100 |
| Hyndburn | 15,700 | 11,200 |
| Ilford North | 13,000 | 7,500 |
| Ilford South | 22,800 | 8,900 |
| Inverclyde | 13,300 | 12,400 |
| Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey | 11,000 | 9,800 |
| Ipswich | 16,100 | 10,600 |
| Isle of Wight | 18,300 | 17,300 |
| Islington North | 18,700 | 10,000 |
| Islington South and Finsbury | 17,900 | 10,300 |
| Islwyn | 10,500 | 11,600 |
| Jarrow | 12,600 | 10,900 |
| Keighley | 12,500 | 8,800 |
| Kenilworth and Southam | 5,300 | 5,300 |
| Kensington | 14,100 | 7,400 |
| Kettering | 10,800 | 8,800 |
| Kilmarnock and Loudoun | 14,400 | 12,300 |
| Kingston and Surbiton | 11,100 | 6,900 |
| Kingston upon Hull East | 16,200 | 10,900 |
| Kingston upon Hull North | 17,000 | 9,700 |
| Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle | 17,100 | 9,900 |
| Kingswood | 7,700 | 7,600 |
| Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath | 14,700 | 11,600 |
| Knowsley | 23,000 | 18,300 |
| Lagan Valley | 12,400 | 14,100 |
| Lanark and Hamilton East | 13,400 | 13,400 |
| Lancaster and Fleetwood | 10,400 | 9,200 |
| Leeds Central | 26,600 | 11,900 |
| Leeds East | 19,700 | 10,500 |
| Leeds North East | 11,100 | 7,400 |
| Leeds North West | 6,600 | 5,400 |
| Leeds West | 16,500 | 9,400 |
| Leicester East | 21,100 | 10,400 |
| Leicester South | 20,100 | 9,700 |
| Leicester West | 20,000 | 10,400 |
| Leigh | 13,900 | 11,800 |
| Lewes | 8,800 | 8,400 |
| Lewisham East | 17,400 | 8,700 |
| Lewisham West and Penge | 17,200 | 8,200 |
| Lewisham, Deptford | 20,100 | 8,300 |
| Leyton and Wanstead | 15,300 | 6,800 |
| Lichfield | 7,700 | 7,900 |
| Lincoln | 15,100 | 10,800 |
| Linlithgow and East Falkirk | 14,500 | 13,400 |
| Liverpool, Riverside | 20,800 | 13,900 |
| Liverpool, Walton | 23,800 | 17,700 |
| Liverpool, Wavertree | 17,100 | 11,700 |
| Liverpool, West Derby | 19,900 | 15,900 |
| Livingston | 14,100 | 13,400 |
| Llanelli | 12,500 | 13,400 |
| Loughborough | 10,000 | 7,700 |
| Louth and Horncastle | 12,600 | 13,600 |
| Ludlow | 7,700 | 7,600 |
| Luton North | 14,500 | 8,500 |
| Luton South | 19,700 | 8,900 |
| Macclesfield | 7,700 | 7,600 |
| Maidenhead | 6,600 | 5,300 |
| Maidstone and The Weald | 10,800 | 7,900 |
| Makerfield | 11,300 | 11,200 |
| Maldon | 7,100 | 6,800 |
| Manchester Central | 27,500 | 13,900 |
| Manchester, Gorton | 24,100 | 11,100 |
| Manchester, Withington | 12,500 | 7,900 |
| Mansfield | 15,300 | 14,100 |
| Meon Valley | 7,000 | 6,400 |
| Meriden | 14,000 | 11,500 |
| Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney | 13,400 | 13,100 |
| Mid Bedfordshire | 7,600 | 7,200 |
| Mid Derbyshire | 6,000 | 7,000 |
| Mid Dorset and North Poole | 6,400 | 6,300 |
| Mid Norfolk | 9,700 | 9,400 |
| Mid Sussex | 7,300 | 6,700 |
| Mid Ulster | 16,000 | 17,100 |
| Mid Worcestershire | 9,600 | 8,700 |
| Middlesbrough | 21,600 | 12,600 |
| Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland | 13,700 | 11,700 |
| Midlothian | 10,300 | 10,300 |
| Milton Keynes North | 14,500 | 9,400 |
| Milton Keynes South | 15,600 | 10,900 |
| Mitcham and Morden | 16,000 | 7,700 |
| Mole Valley | 5,600 | 5,700 |
| Monmouth | 7,800 | 8,800 |
| Montgomeryshire | 6,800 | 6,500 |
| Moray | 9,200 | 8,000 |
| Morecambe and Lunesdale | 12,800 | 10,800 |
| Morley and Outwood | 9,700 | 8,600 |
| Motherwell and Wishaw | 15,500 | 14,300 |
| Na h-Eileanan an Iar | 2,900 | 3,200 |
| Neath | 11,100 | 12,700 |
| New Forest East | 7,100 | 7,500 |
| New Forest West | 6,700 | 7,200 |
| Newark | 9,500 | 8,800 |
| Newbury | 8,000 | 6,400 |
| Newcastle upon Tyne Central | 19,100 | 10,700 |
| Newcastle upon Tyne East | 13,800 | 9,000 |
| Newcastle upon Tyne North | 12,500 | 10,600 |
| Newcastle-under-Lyme | 9,800 | 9,100 |
| Newport East | 12,000 | 10,000 |
| Newport West | 13,300 | 11,400 |
| Newry and Armagh | 20,400 | 19,500 |
| Newton Abbot | 9,800 | 9,600 |
| Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford | 16,200 | 13,800 |
| North Antrim | 16,800 | 16,800 |
| North Ayrshire and Arran | 14,800 | 12,900 |
| North Cornwall | 10,900 | 8,700 |
| North Devon | 11,100 | 9,200 |
| North Dorset | 7,500 | 7,600 |
| North Down | 10,500 | 12,700 |
| North Durham | 13,100 | 11,500 |
| North East Bedfordshire | 8,700 | 7,700 |
| North East Cambridgeshire | 14,100 | 12,300 |
| North East Derbyshire | 9,500 | 10,400 |
| North East Fife | 6,300 | 6,200 |
| North East Hampshire | 5,000 | 5,100 |
| North East Hertfordshire | 8,100 | 7,300 |
| North East Somerset | 7,500 | 7,200 |
| North Herefordshire | 7,800 | 7,500 |
| North Norfolk | 8,900 | 8,800 |
| North Shropshire | 10,500 | 9,800 |
| North Somerset | 6,500 | 7,000 |
| North Swindon | 11,600 | 9,400 |
| North Thanet | 14,300 | 12,300 |
| North Tyneside | 16,100 | 13,000 |
| North Warwickshire | 10,400 | 9,600 |
| North West Cambridgeshire | 13,600 | 10,500 |
| North West Durham | 12,800 | 12,000 |
| North West Hampshire | 8,300 | 7,300 |
| North West Leicestershire | 8,900 | 8,400 |
| North West Norfolk | 11,300 | 10,300 |
| North Wiltshire | 6,500 | 6,400 |
| Northampton North | 11,500 | 7,800 |
| Northampton South | 14,100 | 8,400 |
| Norwich North | 10,900 | 8,700 |
| Norwich South | 13,900 | 9,600 |
| Nottingham East | 19,600 | 10,400 |
| Nottingham North | 21,900 | 14,300 |
| Nottingham South | 13,900 | 9,100 |
| Nuneaton | 12,200 | 9,500 |
| Ochil and South Perthshire | 11,000 | 10,400 |
| Ogmore | 11,300 | 11,900 |
| Old Bexley and Sidcup | 6,600 | 6,300 |
| Oldham East and Saddleworth | 18,100 | 11,400 |
| Oldham West and Royton | 20,600 | 12,000 |
| Orkney and Shetland | 3,600 | 4,000 |
| Orpington | 7,000 | 6,200 |
| Oxford East | 12,100 | 7,700 |
| Oxford West and Abingdon | 6,400 | 5,900 |
| Paisley and Renfrewshire North | 10,800 | 11,000 |
| Paisley and Renfrewshire South | 13,000 | 11,400 |
| Pendle | 15,000 | 9,900 |
| Penistone and Stocksbridge | 8,200 | 9,200 |
| Penrith and The Border | 6,700 | 6,800 |
| Perth and North Perthshire | 10,600 | 9,700 |
| Peterborough | 22,700 | 12,300 |
| Plymouth, Moor View | 14,000 | 12,900 |
| Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport | 18,100 | 12,100 |
| Pontypridd | 9,400 | 10,000 |
| Poole | 10,200 | 8,400 |
| Poplar and Limehouse | 27,000 | 10,700 |
| Portsmouth North | 12,000 | 8,600 |
| Portsmouth South | 15,800 | 8,600 |
| Preseli Pembrokeshire | 10,400 | 9,200 |
| Preston | 18,400 | 10,800 |
| Pudsey | 7,600 | 6,500 |
| Putney | 10,700 | 5,300 |
| Rayleigh and Wickford | 6,800 | 7,200 |
| Reading East | 10,000 | 5,900 |
| Reading West | 12,400 | 7,700 |
| Redcar | 14,900 | 11,900 |
| Redditch | 10,500 | 8,100 |
| Reigate | 7,200 | 6,700 |
| Rhondda | 12,600 | 12,200 |
| Ribble Valley | 7,300 | 7,900 |
| Richmond (Yorks) | 8,000 | 8,300 |
| Richmond Park | 8,100 | 5,400 |
| Rochdale | 21,800 | 12,700 |
| Rochester and Strood | 12,500 | 10,000 |
| Rochford and Southend East | 17,200 | 10,700 |
| Romford | 11,300 | 7,400 |
| Romsey and Southampton North | 6,400 | 5,700 |
| Ross, Skye and Lochaber | 6,500 | 6,000 |
| Rossendale and Darwen | 12,600 | 10,100 |
| Rother Valley | 10,800 | 11,000 |
| Rotherham | 17,200 | 12,300 |
| Rugby | 9,600 | 7,900 |
| Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner | 7,400 | 6,300 |
| Runnymede and Weybridge | 7,400 | 6,400 |
| Rushcliffe | 6,300 | 6,800 |
| Rutherglen and Hamilton West | 16,300 | 14,900 |
| Rutland and Melton | 7,400 | 7,000 |
| Saffron Walden | 7,400 | 6,500 |
| Salford and Eccles | 19,600 | 12,900 |
| Salisbury | 8,500 | 7,400 |
| Scarborough and Whitby | 13,500 | 11,300 |
| Scunthorpe | 12,900 | 9,700 |
| Sedgefield | 12,200 | 11,600 |
| Sefton Central | 7,000 | 9,400 |
| Selby and Ainsty | 7,900 | 7,500 |
| Sevenoaks | 6,900 | 6,900 |
| Sheffield Central | 14,300 | 9,000 |
| Sheffield South East | 14,300 | 11,900 |
| Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough | 22,700 | 15,200 |
| Sheffield, Hallam | 4,600 | 5,400 |
| Sheffield, Heeley | 15,200 | 11,300 |
| Sherwood | 11,200 | 11,700 |
| Shipley | 9,500 | 7,600 |
| Shrewsbury and Atcham | 10,200 | 9,400 |
| Sittingbourne and Sheppey | 15,500 | 13,400 |
| Skipton and Ripon | 7,100 | 7,100 |
| Sleaford and North Hykeham | 9,700 | 10,900 |
| Slough | 19,700 | 8,700 |
| Solihull | 8,000 | 8,300 |
| Somerton and Frome | 9,600 | 8,400 |
| South Antrim | 12,800 | 15,000 |
| South Basildon and East Thurrock | 12,200 | 9,400 |
| South Cambridgeshire | 6,700 | 6,700 |
| South Derbyshire | 9,100 | 9,000 |
| South Dorset | 11,100 | 10,100 |
| South Down | 17,000 | 18,000 |
| South East Cambridgeshire | 8,100 | 7,300 |
| South East Cornwall | 10,100 | 9,200 |
| South Holland and The Deepings | 11,100 | 9,800 |
| South Leicestershire | 8,400 | 7,600 |
| South Norfolk | 8,800 | 8,600 |
| South Northamptonshire | 7,400 | 7,000 |
| South Ribble | 8,600 | 9,000 |
| South Shields | 15,500 | 11,600 |
| South Staffordshire | 8,400 | 8,400 |
| South Suffolk | 7,800 | 7,300 |
| South Swindon | 12,800 | 8,600 |
| South Thanet | 15,600 | 11,900 |
| South West Bedfordshire | 10,300 | 7,900 |
| South West Devon | 6,900 | 8,000 |
| South West Hertfordshire | 6,600 | 6,000 |
| South West Norfolk | 11,200 | 10,400 |
| South West Surrey | 6,100 | 6,000 |
| South West Wiltshire | 9,700 | 8,900 |
| Southampton, Itchen | 14,900 | 9,900 |
| Southampton, Test | 15,800 | 9,700 |
| Southend West | 9,700 | 7,500 |
| Southport | 12,300 | 11,200 |
| Spelthorne | 8,800 | 7,000 |
| St Albans | 7,500 | 5,900 |
| St Austell and Newquay | 13,900 | 10,600 |
| St Helens North | 14,400 | 13,900 |
| St Helens South and Whiston | 16,400 | 14,800 |
| St Ives | 11,000 | 8,500 |
| Stafford | 9,200 | 8,400 |
| Staffordshire Moorlands | 6,300 | 7,000 |
| Stalybridge and Hyde | 14,100 | 10,500 |
| Stevenage | 10,700 | 8,800 |
| Stirling | 8,700 | 8,400 |
| Stockport | 13,700 | 9,500 |
| Stockton North | 15,800 | 12,200 |
| Stockton South | 11,500 | 9,800 |
| Stoke-on-Trent Central | 14,800 | 9,600 |
| Stoke-on-Trent North | 16,200 | 11,800 |
| Stoke-on-Trent South | 13,100 | 11,000 |
| Stone | 6,000 | 7,400 |
| Stourbridge | 10,600 | 8,400 |
| Strangford | 12,500 | 14,400 |
| Stratford-on-Avon | 7,500 | 6,900 |
| Streatham | 17,400 | 7,100 |
| Stretford and Urmston | 13,800 | 10,300 |
| Stroud | 8,700 | 7,600 |
| Suffolk Coastal | 8,800 | 9,300 |
| Sunderland Central | 17,200 | 13,800 |
| Surrey Heath | 6,900 | 6,500 |
| Sutton and Cheam | 8,900 | 6,000 |
| Sutton Coldfield | 7,100 | 7,400 |
| Swansea East | 14,700 | 13,100 |
| Swansea West | 12,100 | 10,600 |
| Tamworth | 10,400 | 8,800 |
| Tatton | 6,300 | 6,600 |
| Taunton Deane | 12,000 | 10,300 |
| Telford | 15,500 | 12,200 |
| Tewkesbury | 8,300 | 7,500 |
| The Cotswolds | 7,000 | 6,600 |
| The Wrekin | 10,300 | 9,600 |
| Thirsk and Malton | 8,300 | 8,400 |
| Thornbury and Yate | 6,300 | 7,000 |
| Thurrock | 16,300 | 9,800 |
| Tiverton and Honiton | 9,800 | 9,300 |
| Tonbridge and Malling | 7,900 | 7,500 |
| Tooting | 11,400 | 5,900 |
| Torbay | 16,300 | 13,600 |
| Torfaen | 13,100 | 12,700 |
| Torridge and West Devon | 10,800 | 10,000 |
| Totnes | 9,800 | 9,200 |
| Tottenham | 31,900 | 12,000 |
| Truro and Falmouth | 10,100 | 8,000 |
| Tunbridge Wells | 8,300 | 6,800 |
| Twickenham | 8,300 | 5,700 |
| Tynemouth | 10,900 | 9,300 |
| Upper Bann | 20,300 | 20,600 |
| Uxbridge and South Ruislip | 11,500 | 7,300 |
| Vale of Clwyd | 12,200 | 12,000 |
| Vale of Glamorgan | 12,800 | 11,900 |
| Vauxhall | 19,100 | 8,400 |
| Wakefield | 13,400 | 10,000 |
| Wallasey | 15,500 | 13,900 |
| Walsall North | 18,700 | 12,500 |
| Walsall South | 19,200 | 11,200 |
| Walthamstow | 19,200 | 7,800 |
| Wansbeck | 11,600 | 10,800 |
| Wantage | 8,600 | 7,400 |
| Warley | 18,200 | 10,200 |
| Warrington North | 12,000 | 10,400 |
| Warrington South | 9,900 | 9,000 |
| Warwick and Leamington | 8,800 | 6,700 |
| Washington and Sunderland West | 14,900 | 12,700 |
| Watford | 12,300 | 7,800 |
| Waveney | 14,500 | 12,900 |
| Wealden | 8,100 | 7,700 |
| Weaver Vale | 10,100 | 9,700 |
| Wellingborough | 12,900 | 10,100 |
| Wells | 11,100 | 9,600 |
| Welwyn Hatfield | 10,700 | 7,900 |
| Wentworth and Dearne | 15,100 | 13,900 |
| West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine | 5,100 | 4,900 |
| West Bromwich East | 16,800 | 10,800 |
| West Bromwich West | 17,800 | 11,500 |
| West Dorset | 8,800 | 9,100 |
| West Dunbartonshire | 15,600 | 13,400 |
| West Ham | 33,100 | 12,500 |
| West Lancashire | 11,500 | 10,500 |
| West Suffolk | 10,300 | 8,600 |
| West Tyrone | 17,400 | 19,000 |
| West Worcestershire | 8,400 | 8,400 |
| Westminster North | 18,600 | 10,000 |
| Westmorland and Lonsdale | 6,000 | 6,700 |
| Weston-super-Mare | 14,400 | 12,100 |
| Wigan | 14,600 | 12,300 |
| Wimbledon | 6,700 | 4,100 |
| Winchester | 5,900 | 5,700 |
| Windsor | 6,500 | 5,200 |
| Wirral South | 6,500 | 7,800 |
| Wirral West | 6,800 | 8,200 |
| Witham | 7,900 | 7,400 |
| Witney | 7,500 | 7,000 |
| Woking | 7,900 | 6,800 |
| Wokingham | 6,000 | 5,400 |
| Wolverhampton North East | 17,000 | 10,300 |
| Wolverhampton South East | 18,700 | 11,000 |
| Wolverhampton South West | 13,200 | 8,000 |
| Worcester | 11,300 | 8,600 |
| Workington | 9,700 | 9,500 |
| Worsley and Eccles South | 16,700 | 12,400 |
| Worthing West | 10,500 | 10,000 |
| Wrexham | 9,600 | 8,600 |
| Wycombe | 11,000 | 6,400 |
| Wyre and Preston North | 6,900 | 8,500 |
| Wyre Forest | 12,000 | 10,200 |
| Wythenshawe and Sale East | 19,200 | 13,400 |
| Yeovil | 11,500 | 9,800 |
| Ynys Môn | 9,000 | 8,200 |
| York Central | 10,300 | 6,900 |
| York Outer | 5,300 | 6,200 |
| [1] 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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