The UK budget

          The pie-chart shows the UK government budget and where it was spent in 1996; the total budget is £315 billion.

          They spent about one third on the social security sector which is £100 billion. Health and personal social services had the second highest and it cost £53 billion, and the two of them take more than half of the budget. Also we can see that education spent £38 billion; the chart shows that they spent in debt interest £25 billion which was slightly more than other expenditure sector which spent £23 billion. Defence spent £17 billion followed by law and order which spent £17 billion. From the chart we can see that housing, heritage and environment spent £15 billion and industry, agriculture & employment cost £13 billion.

          It can be clearly seen that the UK government spent a lot of money in their country to improve their social life and as we see from the chart they spent £100 billion. Also the most focus was on health and education which increases the awareness of culture and society.

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