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The Performance Dimensions in Budget => Are accounting, recording and reporting adequate? => Topic started by: petagny on October 27, 2011, 09:43:39 GMT
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Here's an interesting graphical presentation of UK public expenditure:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/interactive/2011/oct/26/public-spending-uk-government-department
Might be a helpful way of presenting the budget on finance ministry websites?
Interesting to see the scale of benefit spending in the UK - 'Work & Pensions'. But that's not all: there's £40 billion of tax credits and child benefit under HM Revenue and Customs. That makes around £200 billion out of total of £693 billion. I guess this is fairly typical of most W. European budgets.
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Armenia has something very similar on its e-Government site - the Minister of Finance gave us a demonstration once in his office and very impressive it looked to. The link to the portal is attached below.
https://www.e-gov.am/en/
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The paper version of the Guardian graphic was different and had breakdowns within each department (too much information for a web page). If I can scan a copy then I'll post it as it's an even better representation.
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If you click on the bubbles on the graphic you are taken to the departmental breakdowns.
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Perhaps however the effort of the Armenian Govt in providing graphic representation of the budget deserves some recognition.
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Just checked it out. It's just what I had in mind - great! In fact, the Armenian e-gov site looks altogether very informative and user-friendly - you can even track the progress of your letter to the government!