Band 6+: You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. The charts below show one government's spending on culture and education in 1995 and 2005 and the number of people participating in Arts events in the same years. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The given pie charts compare the proportion of government investing in the Arts across 4 genres between 1995 and 2005. The provided bar chart reveals how many people took part in Arts Events during the same period. In general, the number of people participating in Arts Events may be influenced by how much the government spent on Arts

As can be seen clearly from the mixed charts, Literature and Theatre followed the same pattern that they both experienced an increase in government funding allocation. As a result, the number of people joining in Literature and Theatre events rose slightly.

In contrast, Visual art followed a downward trend leading to the slight fall in the number of attendees, from just above 50,000 to below 50,000.

Surprisingly, although the government slightly reduced its financial support for Music, Music still attracted the highest number of participants, making it the most popular category in both years.