Thursday, February 10, 2011

UK Budget: Where the money goes

This pie chart shows the information on UK government spending in 1996. The total budget spent is £ 315 billion.
The government spent a lot of this money on social security, £100 billion. Secondly it spent on health and personal social services about £53 billion. Education took £38 billion. £25 billion was spent on Debt interest and £22 billion on Defence. Also the government spent £17 billion on law and order, £15 billion on housing, heritage and environment and £13 billion on Industry, agriculture and employment. The government spent £9 billion on transport. Other expenditure was £23 billion.
The main feature in the pie chart is the large amount spent on social security, twice the amount spent on the next two biggest categories combined, health and education.

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