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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. Summaries 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. Summaries the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
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The provided table gives data relating to the police
budget
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 from 3 various sources and the total
budget
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 for 2017 and 2018. The given pie charts illustrate ways of spending money on 3 various categories, namely salaries, technology, buildings and transport in Britain.
Overall
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, it is obvious that the biggest changes in the
budget
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 were in local taxes compared with other sources. The money distributed on buildings and transport remained stable for two various years. It is conspicuous that there was a plateau in national government and other sources,
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 as grants in 2 years, which increased by 2.3m and 3.5m respectively. It is noteworthy that the police
budget
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 which came from local taxes increased in 2018 to 102.3m, which represented 11.1m in the
budget
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 more than the money proportion in 2017.
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, the Total
budget
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 upsurged by almost 13.9 million pounds, which accounted for 3178.6m in 2018,
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 it depicted 304.7 million pounds. It is noteworthy that staff and officers' wages levelled off in two years, having 17% of the pie chart.
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, there were marked changes in two categories, which increased in technology and decreased in salaries by the same proportion, showing a difference of 6% in 2018 in comparison with 2017.

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Vocabulary: Replace the words budget, m with synonyms.
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Vocabulary: The word "charts" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "gives" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "changes" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "proportion" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "increased" was used 3 times.
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