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 illustrates the police

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from the national government, local taxes, and other sources in the area of the UK from 2017 to 2018. The pie chart compares how the expenditure was spent on three different things,

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as salaries, technology, buildings and transport.

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the police

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in 2018 was higher than the

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in 2017. We can see that salaries accounted for the largest proportion of expenditure. In 2017, the total

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was around 204.7

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. The figure for national government spent 175.5

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on the police

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, which decreased by 2.3

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in 2018 national government spending on. Local taxes

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had increased significantly from 2017 to 2018, with 91.2

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and 102.3

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respectively. There was a slight rise in the other sources between 2017 and 2018, by 0.5

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. Compared to the total

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in 2017, there was 318.6

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in 2018.

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, the salaries in one area of Britain at 69%, were lower than that in 2017, at 75%.

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, money spent on technology in 2017 was 6% more than in 2018. There was a remain stable in the expenditure of buildings and transport.