Band 7+: Writing Task 1 You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. The pie chart gives information on UAE government spending in 2000. The total budget was AED 315 billion. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant. You should write at least 150 words.

The given pie chart depicts the allocations of the UAE government’s fund in 2000.

Upon preliminary assessment of the data, it is transparent that most of the AED 315 billion went into investments regarding social security. Another noteworthy observation is that a substantial amout of money was spent for health and personal social services as well.

Almost one third of the total spending was on social security, which was almost double that of health and personal social services, respectively at AED 100 billion and AED 53 billion. Regarding the third most invested sector, education accounted for about AED 38 billion, which roughly translates to 12% of the total. The three dominant spendings took up more than two-thirds of the whole picture, eclipsing the rest of the fund allocations.

Most of the other notable sectors costed from almost AED 10 billion to more than AED 20 billion. A considerable amount was spent on defence and debt interest, both being marginally higher than the AED 20 billion threshold. Standing slightly behind, Law and Order and Housing the Heritage and Environment consituted AED 17 billion and AED 15 billion respectively. While Industry, Agriculture and Employment comprised AED 13 billion, AED 9 billion was spent on Transport and the rest which totalled to about AED 23 billion was for other purposes.