the table and chart below give information on the police budget for 2017 and 2018
The table shows data about the source of the police
budget
, and the pie chart presents information on how this
budget
was spent in one particular region of the United Kingdom in 2017 and 2018.
Overall
, the national government accounted for the largest proportion of the total budget
in both 2017 and 2018, while
other sources
(eg grants) represented the smallest percentage. In addition
, the majority of the budget
flew to the salaries of officers or staff.
The total budget
in the UK rose from 304.7m in 2017 to 318.6m in 2018, and all three sources
showed an upward trend during the period. It is particularly noticeable for local taxes, which increased from 91.2m(2017) to 102.3m(2018). The national government contributed 175.5m in 2017 which went up to 177.8m in 2018, which was the largest source of the total budget
. By contrast
, other sources
(eg grants) only contributed 38m(2017) and 38.5m(2018), which was much lower than the other two sources
.
The salaries (officers and staff) made up 75% and 69% of the police budget
in 2017 and 2018 respectively, which was the largest spending path in the UK. Followed by spending on buildings and transport, growing from 8% in 2017 to 14% in 2018. Interestingly, the figure for expenditure on technology remained the same in both 2017 and 2018(17%).Submitted by tfhe1112 on
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