UK Government pie chart

This pie chart has information on what the UK government spent in 1996. The total budget was £ 315 billion, divided into ten categories.

The highest budget category is spent on social security and it cost £ 100 billion. However health and personal social services came in second position and it cost £ 53 billion. The debt interest, defence, and other expenditure all had budgets between £ 22 to 25 billion. The third highest budget went to education and it cost £ 38 billion. The budget in housing heritage and environment cost £ 15 billion, whereas law and order cost £ 17 billion. Also the government spent £ 13 billion on industry, agriculture and employment. The lowest budget was the transport and it cost only £ 9 billion.

This chart shows us that the social security had the biggest share of the UK government spending in 1996.

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