pre_text: 10. Tax The tax charge for the year ended 31 December 2019 was $11.6 million (2018 $5.4 million). This was after a prior year tax charge of $0.1 million and a tax credit on the adjusting items of $0.7 million (2018 prior year credit of $1.5 million and tax credit on adjusting items of $5.2 million). Excluding the prior year and tax credit on adjusting items, the effective tax rate was 13.0 per cent (2018 15.4 per cent).
table: 2019 2018
table: $ million $ million
table: Tax charge in the income statement
table: Current income tax
table: UK tax 0.3 0.1
table: Foreign tax 9.2 6.2
table: Amounts underprovided/(overprovided) in previous years 0.3 (1.2)
table: Total current income tax charge 9.8 5.1
table: Deferred tax
table: Recognition of deferred tax assets (1.5) (0.8)
table: Reversal of temporary differences 3.5 1.4
table: Adjustments in respect of prior years (0.2) (0.3)
table: Total deferred tax charge 1.8 0.3
table: Tax charge in the income statement 11.6 5.4
question: Analyse this data from a financial earnings document. What was the change in the tax charge in the income statement?