Band 5+: Writing Task 1 You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. 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. Write at least 150 words.

The table given below gives the Information about the police budget for 2017 and 2018 in same city of Britain. The pie chart gives illustration where the budgets were distributed. Overall, national government was the sector from where highest budget was received whereas in salaries budget was maximum money was spend in both year.

In the beginning, maximum budget was received from national government with the value of 175.5m in 2017 and 177.8 in 2018. Secondly, local taxes was the second highest where the money came from that increased in 2018 with the number 102.3m which was 91.2m in 2017. However, from other sources such as grants 38m was received in 2017 and 38.5m in 2018.

Furthermore, talking about the chart of 2017, 3/4 partitions were spend on salaries of officer and staffs, whereas 1/4 was used for buildings and transport also used was used in technology. After 5 years, there have been slightly changes in expenditure of the police budget. 69% of budget were spend on salaries that got decreased from last year, whereas while expenditure for building and transport remained same in both years.