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 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 charts and table illustrate data about the budget of the police for the
years
2017 and 2018 in an individual area in
Britian
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Britain
, and where they got the money from and how it was distributed.
This
unit is measured in
both
millions and percentages.
Overall
, the majority of the budget came from
national
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the national
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government,
whereas
they allocated most of the money
on
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salaries
on
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in
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both
years
.
According to
the table,
both
years
have immense differences in
the
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income. Starting with the national government,
both
years
were quite similar to each other, in the
year
2017 they got 176.5
million
and 177.8
million
in 2018.
On the other hand
, the local taxes had a significant development from 91.2
million
to 102.3
million
, the following
year
.
Lastly
, the other sources (e.g. grants) slightly went from 38
million
to 38.5
million
. The total was 304.6
million
during the first
year
then
jumped to 318.6
million
in 2018. When examining how they spent the money, they
primarly
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primarily
spent 75% on salaries (office and staff) in
year
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2017,
then
the percentage reduced to 69%.
In addition
, they spent the exact same amount on buildings and transport with
the
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percentage of 17%.
Furthermore
, in the
year
of
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2017, they distributed only 8% on technology, but the percentage grew moderately to 14% in the other
year
.
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Vocabulary: Replace the words years, both, year, million with synonyms.
Vocabulary: The word "table" was used 2 times.
Vocabulary: The word "percentages" was used 4 times.
Vocabulary: Use several vocabularies to present the data in the second paragraph.

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Topic Vocabulary:
  • Fiscal allocations
  • Revenue streams
  • Budgetary oversight
  • Expenditure
  • Financial appropriation
  • Government grants
  • Local taxation
  • Operational costs
  • Capital investment
  • Public safety
  • Crime prevention
  • Community policing
  • Resource allocation
  • Year-on-year comparison
  • Budgetary constraints
  • Fiscal year
  • Fund disbursement
  • Budget deficit/surplus
  • Trend analysis
  • Financial sustainability
  • Law enforcement funding
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