The pie charts illustrate the amount of budget spent by the local authorities in nine different sectors compared to two different years, 2010 and 2015.
Overall, in both the mentioned years, local administrators spent a significant proportion of budget on four major sectors, namely, education, healthcare, pensions, and defense. However, this shrank marginally to provide a much-improved allocation for transport and interest on borrowing in the later year.
The local government allocated almost eighty percent of its 2010 budget to four main areas, with the education sector receiving the highest share of expenditures (24%). As a result, the remaining money was divided among the other five sectors, with welfare receiving the largest share at 8% and “other” receiving the least at 1%.
In the year 2015, local government spending took a shift from 2010. In order to raise the allocation welfare and interest on borrowings, both of which raised to 5% more budget, authorities skimmed the budget from the rest of the sectors, leaving three sectors getting only 1%.