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. 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.

The table mentions various sources of money and the pie chart states the expenditure of the police budget in the years 2017 and 2018.

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, the trend shows that the sources of income have increased from the first

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to the second.

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, the money spent on salaries has been reduced. Starting with income, the highest contributor was the National Government,their share rose from 175.5 million pounds to 177.8 million from 2017 to 2018. Next was local taxes, these increased from 91.2 m£ to 102.3m£ in the next

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. The least contributing was other sources

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as grants that remained at nearly 38m£ in both the years.

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, the total was 304.7m£ in 2017 which rose to 318.6m£ the next

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. For expenditure, 75% budget was spent on salaries which fell to 69% the next

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. But, money spent on the building and transport remains the same, at 17%.

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, the increase was seen in technology, from 8% to 14% in the consecutive

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.