WRITING TASK 1 You should spend about 20 minutes on this task, 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 Infermation by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant,

The figures show financial allocation and sources for police in the British area between 2017 and 2018. The table above illustrates three distinct streams of revenues in both years expressed in millions of pounds sterlings

while

the pie chart below presents the percentage of distribution into three uses (salaries, technology, and buildings and transport).

Overall

, a notable increase in total budget from the year 2017 to 2018 is observed

whereas

there was not any significant variety of spending.

Besides

, the money received from all the categories of income origin experienced an upward trend. On the other side, only two categories of expenditure had a little shift,

while

the other one remained stable.

Firstly

, the biggest rise in the budget component came from local taxes categories which rose from 91.2 to 102.3. The other two were far behind with less than 2.5 growth,

although

the biggest part of the money was received from the national government in both years with 175.5 and 177.8 respectively.

Furthermore

, grants only made up less than 40 with the least quantity of change (only 0.5 from 2017 to 2018). In terms of how the money was spent, the expense in wage payment for the officers and the staff accounted for three-quarters in 2017, even though the fragment fell to just below 70% in 2018. The spending on technology climbed by 6% from 8% in the first year to 14% in the next year.

However

, building and transport allocation stayed the same within both years.