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The charts below show local government expenditure in 2010 and 2015. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The charts below show local government expenditure in 2010 and 2015. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
The pie charts depict the proportions of allocations for nine items done by some local authorities in 2010 and 2015.
Overall
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, the
two
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 categories, namely interest and borrowing, and transport indicate moderate and significant growth in the numbers,
whereas
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 the other five brackets, welfare, education, healthcare,
defence
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, culture and leisure, illustrate somewhat declines.
Moreover
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, in terms of the remaining
two
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, pensions and others, they remain stable.
To begin
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 with, regarding the first
two
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 groups, the expenditure for interest and borrowing accounted for 5% in 2010, which was roughly a quarter of that for healthcare.
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, over the next five years, the figure doubled.
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, the proportion of welfare started at less than 10% in 2010, which was half that of
defence
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. In 2015, the number rose by 5%, closely following
defence
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 with only 1%.
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, in regard to education and healthcare, these figures made up more than a-fifth in 2010.
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 these categories experienced slight drops, the proportions stayed almost the same as those of 2010. Moving to the distribution of
defence
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, during the five-year period, there was a 3% decline in its number.
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, the percentages of transport and culture and leisure were 3% and 2% respectively in 2010, resulting in 1% in five years.
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, the remaining
two
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 figures showed no change at all, accounting for almost 20% for pensions and 1% for others.

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Vocabulary: Replace the words two, defence with synonyms.
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Vocabulary: The word "figure" was used 3 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "figure" was used 3 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "proportions" was used 3 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "declines" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "almost" was used 2 times.
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