Interesting graphic on UK public spending

[petagny]

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.

[atseacliff]

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/

[harnett]

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.

[petagny]

If you click on the bubbles on the graphic you are taken to the departmental breakdowns.

[atseacliff]

Perhaps however the effort of the Armenian Govt in providing graphic representation of the budget deserves some recognition.

[petagny]

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!