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The table and charts below give information on the police budget for 2017 and 2018 in one area of Britain. The table shows where the money came from and the charts show how it was distributed. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The table and charts below give information on the police budget for 2017 and 2018 in one area of Britain. The table shows where the money came from and the charts show how it was distributed. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
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The form and pie charts describe the sources for the police
budget
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as well as
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 how it was spent in 2017 and 2018 in one area of Britain.
Overall
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, the source that contributed the most to the police
budget
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 in
both
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years
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 was National Government.
Then
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 local taxes' contribution ranked the second and the least came from other sources. In
both
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years
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, the money was mainly spent on
salaries
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 and the least
percentage
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 of the
budget
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 was spent on technology. In
both
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years
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, the majority of the
budget
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 came from National Government. Up to 175.5
million
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 came from National Government in 2017 and in 2018 the number rose to 177.8
million
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. Local taxes contributed 91.2
million
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 to the
budget
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 in 2017 and 102.3
million
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 in 2018. In
both
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years
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, there was a contribution of around 38
million
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 from other sources. The
budget
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 in 2017 was 304.7
million
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 in total, and the
budget
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 in 2018 was 318.6
million
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 in total. In
both
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years
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, the same
percentage
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 of the
budget
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 was distributed to buildings and transport, which was 17% of the entire
budget
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. More money was invested in technology in 2018 than in 2017. In 2017, only 8% of the
budget
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 was spent on technology but the
percentage
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 rose to 14% in 2018. Most of the
budget
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 went to officers' and staff's
salaries
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. In 2017,
salaries
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 accounted for 75% of the
budget
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. The
percentage
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 of the
budget
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 spent on
salaries
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 dropped a little in 2018, which was 69%.
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Vocabulary: Replace the words budget, both, years, salaries, percentage, million with synonyms.
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Vocabulary: Only 4 basic words for charts were used.
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Vocabulary: The word "percentage" was used 4 times.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • Fiscal allocations
  • Revenue streams
  • Budgetary oversight
  • Expenditure
  • Financial appropriation
  • Government grants
  • Local taxation
  • Operational costs
  • Capital investment
  • Public safety
  • Crime prevention
  • Community policing
  • Resource allocation
  • Year-on-year comparison
  • Budgetary constraints
  • Fiscal year
  • Fund disbursement
  • Budget deficit/surplus
  • Trend analysis
  • Financial sustainability
  • Law enforcement funding
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