The latest figures show that Greater Manchester will be the hardest hit by abolishing teenage students’ weekly allowances. As a region, the area has the greatest number of recipients of the Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA), with 37,418 having received one or more payments this year before the end of November. According to the Young Person’s Learning Agency figures, West Yorkshire has the next highest with 29,318, followed by London with 28,447.

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The map above plots the number of recipients across the regions.

However, if the data is broken down to the local education authority level, 18,107 students in Birmingham receive the allowance – the highest number in the country. That compares to just 14 in the City of London, which has the lowest number of claimants.

  • EMAEngland
  • Location
  • EMA claimants
  • Click heading to sort
  • Birmingham – 18,107
  • Kent – 14,274
  • Lancashire – 14,232
  • Essex – 12,717
  • Hampshire – 10,907
  • Staffordshire – 9,220
  • Norfolk – 8,894
  • Hertfordshire – 8,892
  • Leeds – 8,630
  • Nottinghamshire – 8,480
  • Lincolnshire – 8,475
  • Derbyshire – 8,341
  • Bradford – 8,321
  • Devon – 8,121
  • Manchester – 7,661
  • Cornwall – 7,098
  • Suffolk – 6,984
  • Northamptonshire – 6,944
  • Liverpool – 6,937
  • West Sussex – 6,733
  • Durham – 6,638
  • Cheshire – 6,638
  • Sheffield – 6,237
  • Surrey – 6,092
  • Leicestershire – 6,080
  • Leicester City – 5,994
  • Worcestershire – 5,745
  • Kirklees – 5,692
  • Gloucestershire – 5,641
  • Somerset – 5,640
  • East Sussex – 5,558
  • Sandwell – 5,387
  • North Yorkshire – 5,113
  • Newham – 5,028
  • Cumbria – 4,761
  • Warwickshire 4,670
  • City of Kingston-Upon-Hull 4,533
  • Cambridgeshire 4,519
  • City of Bristol 4,356
  • Wirral 4,316
  • Coventry 4,234
  • Dudley 4,221
  • Enfield 4,215
  • Walsall 4,182
  • Sunderland 4,155
  • Bolton 4,125
  • Oxfordshire 4,096
  • Doncaster 4,094
  • City of Nottingham 4,094
  • Wolverhampton 4,051
  • Wigan 4,022
  • Wiltshire 3,977
  • Croydon 3,967
  • Wakefield 3,962
  • Brent 3,910
  • Oldham 3,905
  • Bedfordshire 3,862
  • Dorset 3,786
  • Sefton 3,754
  • Stoke-on-Trent 3,744
  • East Riding of Yorkshire 3,672
  • Tower Hamlets 3,671
  • Ealing 3,654
  • Rochdale 3,599
  • Buckinghamshire 3,482
  • Rotherham 3,463
  • Waltham Forest 3,442
  • Northumberland 3,366
  • Redbridge 3,346
  • Newcastle-upon-Tyne 3,325
  • Lewisham 3,282
  • Southwark 3,267
  • Tameside 3,231
  • Haringey 3,220
  • Luton 3,218
  • Barnsley 3,217
  • Lambeth 3,175
  • Salford 3,170
  • Hackney 3,123
  • Plymouth 3,057
  • Derby 3,037
  • Medway 2,989
  • Blackburn with Darwen 2,985
  • Barnet 2,976
  • Greenwich 2,954
  • Stockport 2,931
  • Shropshire 2,805
  • Hillingdon 2,774
  • Barking and Dagenham 2,764
  • Calderdale 2,713
  • Knowsley 2,710
  • Stockton-on-Tees 2,659
  • Brighton and Hove 2,604