Band 7+: The three pie charts below show the changes in annual spending by a particular UK school in 1981, 1991 and 2001. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The pie charts illustrate the variations in yearly expenditure in one school in the United Kingdom in three separate years.

Overall, the biggest cost for the school in all three years was paying teachers’ wages. The other significant trends were that the amount of money spent on insuring the school went up steadily, while the money spent on other workers’salaries gradually went down.

In 1981, the school spent 40% of its budget on paying teachers, and this went up to half of the total annual budget in 1991 before falling slightly to 45% 10 years later. Wages for people other than teachers accounted for around a quarter of the total outgoings in 1981 and 1991, but it decreased significantly to just 15% in 2001.

Insurance costs made up a tiny proportion of yearly outgoings in the first 20 years, but it rose to nearly one-tenth of the total budget in 2001. Resources fluctuated between 9% and 20% over the three years, while costs for furniture and equipment varied more widely, between 5% and 23%.