UK budget, 1996..

The pie chart shows how much money is spent by the government of the U.K on various categories in 1996.

Social security took the highest amount of the budget which was £100 billion. In the second rank came health and personal social services with £53 billion which is more than the half of the first. £38 billion was spent on education: that came in third. Debt interest, other expenditure and defence are close to each other, £25 billion, £23 billion and £22 billion respectively. They spent about £ 17 billion for law and order. Housing, heritage and environment cost £15 billion. The two other things to be mentioned are industry, agriculture & employment, £13 billion, and transport, £9 billion.

The pie chart shows that the U.K. government wasn’t interested in spending its money on transport and housing, heritage and environment compared with the money it spent on social security and health which is about half of the money.

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