Budget of the UK in 1996

The pie chart describes how much money the U.K. government spent on various categories in 1996.

The chart shows you that most of what it spent was on social security: that was £100 billion. It’s the biggest part of the total budget. Health and personal social services cost about half of what was spent on social security. They spent on it £53 billion. Next came education with £38 billion and defence with £22 billion. The U.K. government spent about £40 billion on the next three categories which were: first, law and order, second, transport, finally, industry, agriculture and employment. Housing, heritage and environment was £15 billion; it was the smallest category apart from transport.Debt interest was £25 billion and the other expenditure was £23 billion.

As you can see, the salient features of the pie chart are that the U.K. government didn’t spend a lot on transportation compared with the other categories.