The UK government’s budget

The UK government’s budget in 1996 was £ 315 billion. This chart shows what the government spent the money on, divided into ten categories.

The government spent most money, by far, on social security, £100 billion. This was almost twice as much as the next category, health which cost £53 billion. Also, we can figure that the expenditure of these two combined accounted for almost a half of the UK budget in 1996. Next came education with £38 billion which is considered good budget for improving society. The government spent more than £20 billion of the budget on the following: debt interest, other expenditure and defence. The final three categories were less than £20 billion: law and order, housing heritage and environment, industry, agriculture and employment.

The outstanding feature of the pie chart is the social security and health accounted for almost half of the UK government’s budget in 1996. In fact social security cost almost as much as health, education and defence combined.
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