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. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparison where relevant.

The table shows the three

sources

(national government, local taxes,

other

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sources

) and the total amount in one area of the UK police

budget

for 2017 and 2018.

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pie chart illustrates the percentages of three different money uses in 2017 and 2018 (wages, technology, construction, and transportation). Units are measured in British

Pound

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.

Overall

, the highest

source

in one area of the UK for the police

budget

in 2017 and 2018 was the national government, and the lowest

source

was other

sources

(grants). Salaries were the top

source

of money spending in both 2017 and 2018. Technology was the least expensive method in both 2017 and 2018.

To begin

with the table, in the year 2017, the National Government as the largest

source

of the political

budget

was 175.5m and it continued as the largest

source

of the political

budget

in 2018 at 177.8m. The Other

sources

had been

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found the lowest police

budget

in both 2017 and 2018, at 38m and 38.5m respectively. In total, the amount from the three

sources

in 2017 was 304.7 and it increased to 318.6m in 2018. The pie chart,

on the other hand

, shows that there was a considerable portion of

this

budget

is used to pay the salaries of officers and staff, which was 75

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in 2017 and fell to 69

percent

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in 2018. As for the

budget

spent on

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‘Technology’, it was 8

percent

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in 2017 and went up 6

percent

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to 14

percent

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in 2018. The category of ‘Buildings and transport’ provided 17

percent

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of the

budget

each year.