Birmingham has been named as the benefits capital of Britain in official figures. Four areas of the city feature among a league table of constituencies with the highest proportion of claimants.
Birmingham Ladywood topped the list - with 10.3 per cent of working age residents receiving unemployment handouts. The neighbouring Hodge Hill seat was second on 8.9 per cent, while Perry Barr and Erdington were fifth and sixth respectively.
The details, compiled by the House of Commons library using last month's data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), lays bare the extent of welfare dependency in some parts of the UK.
Birmingham has been notorious for its deprivation, becoming the focus of the 2014 Channel 4 documentary Benefits Street.
