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 moneys came from and the charts show how it is distributed.

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 moneys came from and the charts show how it is distributed.
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The table given shows the different sources of income, in 2017 and 2018, in millions of pounds, of police budget in a particular area of Britain,
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the two pie charts illustrate the proportion of expenditures on three different categories in the same two years.
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, the contribution of the national government to the total revenue is the highest,
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the least amount of income was spent on technology in both years.
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the table, the total police budget increased from £304.7m in 2017 to £318.6m in 2018. Most of the funds came from the national government which had an increment from  £175.5m in 2017 to £177.8m in 2018. In 2017, £91.2m funds were sourced from local taxes, which went up to £102.3m in the year 2018,
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the money from other sources (eg grants) contributed £38m in 2017 to the total budget and £.5m more in the next year.
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, the proportion of total expenditures on salaries decreased from 75% to 69%, from 2017 to 2018, but spending on technology almost doubled from 8% to 14%. The funds spent on buildings and transport remained the same at 17%.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • budget allocation
  • funding sources
  • expenditure categories
  • fiscal year
  • operational efficiency
  • resource allocation
  • personnel management
  • National Government
  • Local Taxes
  • Miscellaneous revenues
  • Salaries
  • Technology
  • Buildings and Transport
  • budget distribution
  • financial trends
  • allocation shifts
  • budget increments
  • expenditure patterns
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