Band 6+: Teat 2 WRITING 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.

The table illustrates how much money was spent on different sources in a British region and the pie graphs show the money dítribution in 2017 and 2018.

Overall, it is readily apparent that more money was spent on the National Government. The figures for salaries accounted for the largest portion in the total expenditure.

Looking at the chart in more detail, 177,8m and 102m was the amount of money allocated to the National Government and Local taxes in 2018, which was slightly higher than that in 2017 with 175,5m and 91,2m respectively. Likewise, the total expenditure saw a marginal increase by 14m over the period. However, other sources received a relatively unchanged amount of money at approximately 38m after the timeframe.

In terms of the remaining charts, more resources were put into paying salaries for officers and staff as it made up one-third the total expenditure in 2017, compared to only 8% of technology. One year later, while the former figures fell to 69%, the latter percentage increased by 6%. Especially, the Government distributed the same portion of money to buildings and transport with 17%.