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 data on the police budget

in

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which the

money

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came

from

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and the two pie charts describe the distribution of the amount of

money

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in the two

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year

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2017 and 2018 in an area of Britain.

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, there was an upward trend in all three different sources

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the

money

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spent on salaries was always the majority of contribution. Looking into more details, the highest amount of

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on the police budget belonged to

‘National

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the national

Government’, 175.5

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pounds

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in 2017 and it kept rising to 177.8

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pounds

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was followed by ‘Local Taxes’, at 91.2

million

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pounds

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in 2017, after one year, it

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significantly to 102.3

million

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pounds

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. In

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of

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how the

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was spent, the majority of

police

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budget goes to salaries which was for officers and staff, dropping slightly from 75% in 2017 to 69% in 2018. Meanwhile, the proportion of ‘Buildings and transport’ remained

constantly

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, at 17% each year. An opposite pattern can be seen in the category of technology, its figure rose sharply from 8% in 2017 to 14% in 2018, which was always the lowest rate during the given period.