Band 6+: 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. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The table and two pie chart provide data about the police budget in one area of UK, between 2017 and 2018. The table demonstrates where the money came from and the charts show how it was spent.

On the whole, it is clear that the majority number of income came from national government for both years, while local taxes was least common source. Salaries were the most site that were spent by government compared to technology and buildings and transport.

To begin with, national government accounted for the largest share of police budget, with increasing from 175,5 in 2017 to 177.8 in 2018. Over the same period, local taxes increased slightly from 91.2 to 102.3m. In contrast, other sources remained relatively stable. It is clearly noticed that 2018 police budget was higher than 2017 by around 14m.

Despite the largest amount of money was spent on salaries in both years, it declined marginally from 75% to 69%. Building and transport ranked second, remaining relatively unchanged over the period. Technology occupied the lowest sector of receiving money between 2017 and 2018, climbing from 8% to 14%.