Life in the Uk Points

LIFE IN THE UK - CHAPTER 2 - POINTS TO REMEMBER 16TH AND 18TH CENTURIES - HUGUENOTS (FRENCH PROTESTANTS) CAME TO BRITAIN TO ESCAPE RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION MID 1840s IRISH MIGRATED DUE TO FAMINE IN IRELAND 1880 - 1910 - JEWISH TO ESCAPE RACIST ATTACKS BY RUSSIAN EMPIRE (POLAND, UKRAINE & BELARUS) 1948 - WEST INDIES WERE INVITED FOR RECONSTRUCTION 1950s - WEST INDIES FOR BUS DRIVERS 1950s - AGENTS WERE SENT TO INDIA AND PAKISTAN MIGRATION FELL IN 1960s AND EARLY 1970s - MIGRATION RESTRICTION LAW PASSED IMMIGRANTS FM AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND AND CANADA CAME DURING THIS PERIOD 1972 - INDIANS FROM UGANDA - 28,000 1970s - VIETNAM 1979 - MORE THAN 25,000 REFUGEES FROM SOUTH EAST ASIA 1980s - US, AUSTRALIA, SOUTH AFRICA AND NEW ZEALAND 1990s - SOVIET UNION

UNTIL 1857 WOMEN HAD NO RIGHT TO DIVORCE HER HUSBAND UNTIL 1882 WOMAN EARNINGS, PROPERTY AND MONEY BELONGED TO HER HUSBAND 1918 (END OF WW I) WOMEN OVER 30 RIGHT TO VOTE 1928 - WOMEN RIGHT TO VOTE AT 21 WOMEN 51% OF POPULATION TODAY THREE-QUARTERS OF WOMEN WITH SCHOOL-AGE CHILDREN ARE IN PAID WORK AVG HOURLY PAY FOR WOMEN IS 20% LESS THAN MEN 15M CHILDREN AND YOUNG AGE UP TO AGE 19. ONE-QUARTER OF UK POPULATION. 65% OF CHILDREN LIVE WITH BOTH BIRTH PARENTS 25% LIVE IN LONE-PARENT FAMILIES 10% LIVE WITH A STEP FAMILY 7, 11 AND 14 - NATIONAL TESTS - ENGLAND PRIMARY SCHOOL STAGES ENGLAND/WALES 5 TO 11 SCOTLAND 5 TO 12 N IRELAND 4 TO 11

ONE IN THREE GO ON TO HIGHER EDUCATION 2 M CHILDREN ARE AT WORK AT ONE TIME AGE OF VOTING - 18 1 IN 5 FIRST-TIME VOTERS USED THEIR VOTE 86% TAKE PART IN COMMUNITY EVENTS 50% TAKE PART IN FUND-RAISING FOR CHARITY

LIFE IN THE UK - CHAPTER 3 - POINTS TO REMEMBER POPULATION UK - 2005 ENGLAND SCOTLAND WALES N IRELAND

Mln 50.1 5.1 2.9 1.7 59.8

% 2001 Census 84% 49.1 8% 5% 3% 100%

POPULATION GROWTH SINCE 1971 POPULATION GROWTH SINCE 1951 ETHNIC DIVERSITY 7.9% TO 8.3% OF UK HALF OF THESE WERE BORN IN UK UK - 2001 WHITE MIXED INDIAN PAKISTANI BANGLADESHI OTHER ASIAN BLACK CARIBBEAN BLACK AFRICAN BLACK OTHER CHINESE OTHERS TOTAL

Mln 54.2 0.7 1.1 0.7 0.3 0.2 0.6 0.5 0.1 0.2 0.2 58.8

% 92.0% 1.2% 1.8% 1.3% 0.5% 0.4% 1.0% 0.8% 0.2% 0.4% 0.4% 100.0%

45% OF ETHNIC MINORITY LIVE IN LONDON ETHNIC % IN UK BY COUNTRY ENGLAND 9% SCOTLAND 2% WALES 2% N IRELAND < 1% VALENTINE'S DAY APRIL FOOL'S DAY

14-Feb 1-Apr

7.70% 17%

NORTH COAST OF SCOTLAND TO SOUTH COAST OF ENGLAND = 600M/1000KM LONGEST DISTANCE NORTH TO SOUTH-WEST = 870 Miles / 1400KM DISTANCE TO COAST = 70 Miles / 120 km LONGEST DISTANCE EAST TO WEST = 320 Miles / 500 km DIALECTS OF ENGLAND GEORDIE TYNESIDE SCOUSE LIVERPOOL COCKNEY LONDON GAELIC WALES GAELIC ALSO SPOKEN IN HIGHLANDS & ISLANDS OF SCOTLAND ULSTER SCOTS N IRELAND RELIGION - 2001 CHRISTIAN (10% R CATHOLIC) MUSLIM HINDU SIKH JEWISH BUDDHIST OTHER TOTAL NO RELIGION NOT STATED TOTAL

% 71.6% 2.7% 1.0% 0.6% 0.5% 0.3% 0.3% 77.0% 15.5% 7.3% 99.8%

CHURCH OF ENGLAND = ANGLICAN CHURCH / EPISCOPAL CHURCH CHURCH OF SCOTLAND = KIRK SPIRITUAL LEADER OF COE IS ARCHBISHOP OF CANTEBURY CHURCH OF SCOTLAND IS PREBYTERIAL

PATRON SAINTS' DAYS - DPGA ST DAVID - WALES ST PATRICK - N IRELAND ST GEORGE - ENGLAND ST ANDREW - SCOTLAND

1-Mar 17-Mar HOLIDAY 23-Apr 30-Nov

MOTHER'S DAY Sunday three weeks before Easter HALLOWEEN 31-Oct GUY FAWKES NIGHT 5-Nov France REMEMBRANCE DAY 11-Nov

BIRTH RATE IN UK SLIGHTLY INCREASED IN 2003

LIFE IN THE UK - CHAPTER 4 - POINTS TO REMEMBER QUEEN - HEAD OF STATE IN UK QUEEN - HEAD OF STATE FOR MANY COUNTRIES IN COMMONWEALTH ADVISE, WARN AND ENCOURAGE THE PM ON DECISIONS QUEEN HAS REIGNED SINCE 1952 646 CONSTITUENCEIS IN UK WHIPS ARE SMALL GROUP OF MPs 78 SEATS FOR UK IN EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION SYSTEM - EP, WALES, SCOT. & NI EXCEPT ENGLAND PM'S COUNTRY HOUSE IS CALLED CHEQUERS PM APPOINTS PEERS LIFE PEERS APPOINTED BY QUEEN ON THE ADVICE OF PM 732 PEERS OUT OF WHICH 600 APPOINTED FOR LIFE 92 HEREDITARY PEERS PRESSURE AND LOBBY GROUPS INFLUENCE GOVT POLICY CIVIL SERVANTS ARE MANAGERS & ADMINISTRATORS WHO CARRY OUT GOVT POLICY POLITICALLY NEUTRAL AND PROFESSIONAL NORTHERN IRELAND PARLIAMENT FORMED 1922 & ABOLISHED IN 1972 NORTHERN IRELAND GOOD FRIDAY AGREEMENT SIGNED IN 1998 1999 - WELSH ASSEMBLY, A SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT AND PERIODIAL N IRELAND ASSEMBLY WELSH ASSEMBLY - 60 MEMBERS SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT - 129 MEMBERS N IRELAND ASSEMBLY - 108 MEMBERS 33 LOCAL AUTHORITIES (COUNCILS) IN LONDON 20% FUNDED BY COUNCIL TAX VOTING AGE FROM 1969 IS 18

ONE HAS THE RIGHT TO HAVE YOUR NAME PLACED ON THE ELECTORAL REGISTER IF YOU ARE AGED 18 OR OVER AND A CITIZEN OF THE UNITED KINGDOM, THE COMMONWEALTH, OR A EUROPEAN UNION MEMBER STATE. CITIZENS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM, THE COMMONWEALTH, AND THE IRISH REPUBL

53 COUNTRIES IN COMMONWEALTH - 1.7 BILLION POPULATION EU (EEC) 1957 UK BECAME PART OF EU IN 1973 2004 - TEN NEW MEMBER COUNTRIES JOINED

2006 - TWO NEW MEMBERS TOTAL 27 MEMBER COUNTRIES COUNCIL OF EU (COUNCIL OF MINISTERS) GOVERN EU - 1949 EUROPEAN COMMISSION - BRUSSELS, BELGIUM EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT - STRASBOURG, FRANCE 78 SEATS FOR REPRESENTATIVES FROM THE UK IN THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT

UN - OVER 190 COUNTRIES IN GOVT, SURGERIES ARE WHEN THE MP OPENS HIS DOORS TO MEET INDIVIDUALS TO DISCUSS MATTERS PERMANENT RESIDENTS HAVE ALL CIVIL AND WELFARE RIGHTS EXCEPT THE RIGHT TO HOLD A BRITISH PASSPORT AND A GENERAL RIGHT TO VOTE SPIN DOCTORS ARE SPOKESMEN AND WOMEN OF POLITICAL PARTIES WHO PUT THEIR OWN VIEWS ON THINGS

LIFE IN THE UK - CHAPTER 5 - POINTS TO REMEMBER TWO-THIRDS IN UK OWN HOME FIRST POINT FOR PURCHASE OF HOME - ESTATE AGENT EXCEPT SCOTLAND FIRST POINT FOR PURCHASE OF HOME - SOLICITOR FOR SCOTLAND PRESCRIPTIONS FREE UNDER 16 (UNDER 25 IN WALES) UNDER 19 AND IN FULL-TIME EDUCATION AGED 60 OR OVER PREGNANT OR WITH BABY UNDER 12 MONTHS SPECIFIED MEDICAL CONDITION RECEIVING INCOME SUPPORT, JOBSEEKERS' ALLOWANCE, WORKING FAMILITIES OR DISABILITIES TAX CREDIT EMERGENCY 999/112 FREE DENTAL TREATMENT UNDER 18 (IN WALES UNDER 25 AND OVER 60) PREGNANT OR WITH BABY UNDER 12 MONTHS RECEIVING INCOME SUPPORT, JOBSEEKERS' ALLOWANCE, WORKING FAMILITIES OR DISABILITIES TAX CREDIT OPTICIANS FREE OVER 60 OF AGE PEOPLE RECEIVING CERTAIN BENEFITS SCOTLAND - EYE TESTS ARE FREE REGISTRATION OF BIRTH WITHIN 6 WEEKS AT REGISTER OFFICE SCHOOLS MUST BE OPEN 190 DAYS A YEAR COLOUR TV LICENCE - £131.50 (2006) PEOPLE AGED 75 - FREE TV LICENCE BLIND PEOPLE - 50% TV LICENCE TENANTS AT SHARED ACCOMDN TO PAY

Year Description 1500 - 1700 Huguenots (French Protestants) Came To Britain To Escape Religious Persecution 1534 Anglican Church came into existence 1605 Guy Fawkes - Gun Power Plot - Nov 5 1840s Irish Migrated Due To Famine In Ireland 1857 Women Got Right To Divorce Her Husband 1880 - 1910 Jewish To Escape Racist Attacks By Russian Empire (Poland, Ukraine & Belarus) 1801 Census Started 1882 Woman Earnings, Property And Money Belonged To Her Husband 1914 - 1918 World War I 1918 Women Over 30 Right To Vote 1922 Northern Ireland Parliament Formed 1928 Women Right To Vote At 21 1939 - 1945 World War II 1948 NHS Began 1948 West Indies & Ireland Were Invited For Reconstruction 1949 Council of Europe Created 1950s West Indies For Bus Drivers 1950s Agents Were Sent To India And Pakistan 1957 EU Started 1960 - 1970 Migration Fell - Migration Restriction Law Passed - Immigrants Fm Australia, New Zealand And Canada Came During This Period 1960 - 1970 Parliament passed rules prohibiting employers from discriminating against women 1969 Voting age changed to 18 1970s Vietnam 1972 Indians From Uganda - 28,000 1972 Northern Ireland Parialment Abolished 1973 UK became part of EU 1979 More Than 25,000 Refugees From South East Asia 1980s Us, Australia, South Africa And New Zealand 1980s - 1990s Fall of the Iron Curtain and the break-up of the Soviet Union 1997 Devolved Administration started for Wales and Scotland 1998 Northern Ireland Good Friday Agreement Signed 1999 Welsh Assembly, A Scottish Parliament And Periodial N Ireland Assembly 2004 Ten Countries Joined EU 2006 Two More Countries Joined EU 2006 Northern Ireland Assembly Suspended

g This Period

Number Description 10% Children Live With Step Family 20% Percent Of Women Earn Lower Than Men 20% Funded By Council Tax 25% Children In UK 25% Children Live With Lone Parents 1/3 Go On To Higher Education 45% Women UK Labour 50% Children Take Part In Fund Raising 51% Women Population 65% Children Live With Both Parents 75% Proportions of Women with children working 86% Children Take Part In Community Events 20 Senior Mps In The Cabinet 27 Countries In EU 33 Local Authorities In The UK 50 Member States of EU working together to protect Human Rights 53 Countries In Commonwealth 78 Seats For UK In EU Parliament 92 Hereditery Peers 190 Countries In UN 190 Days School Must Be Open £500 The Deposit Required For Candidates Standing As A Member For The Scottish Parliament Or The Welsh Or Northern Ireland Assemblies 600 Life Peers Appointed By Queen With Advice Of The PM 646 Constituenceis In UK 732 Peers £5,000 The Deposit Required For Candidates Standing As A Member For UK Parliament ### Children Are Working At One Time ### Children In UK

UK - 2001 White Indian Pakistani Mixed Black Caribbean Black African Bangladeshi Other Asian Chinese Others Black Other TOTAL

Mln 54.2 1.1 0.7 0.7 0.6 0.5 0.3 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.1 58.8

% 92.0% 1.8% 1.3% 1.2% 1.0% 0.8% 0.5% 0.4% 0.4% 0.4% 0.2% 100.0%

Parliament Members Wales N Ireland Scotland

ETHNIC % IN UK BY COUNTRY - 7.9% England 9% Scotland 2% Wales 2% N Ireland < 1%

UK - 2005 England Scotland Wales N Ireland

Valentine's Day 14-Feb April Fool's Day 1-Apr Mother's Day Sun 3 weeks b4 Easter Halloween 31-Oct Guy Fawkes Night 5-Nov Remembrance Day 11-Nov Patron Saints' Days - Dpga St David Wales St Patrick N Ireland St George England St Andrew Scotland

Religion - 2001 Christian (10% Catholic) Muslim Hindu Sikh Jewish Buddhist Other Total No Religion Not Stated Total

1-Mar 17-Mar 23-Apr 30-Nov

Dialects Of England Geordie Scouse Cockney

% 71.6% 2.7% 1.0% 0.6% 0.5% 0.3% 0.3% 77.0% 15.5% 7.3% 99.8%

60 108 129 Mln 50.1 5.1 2.9 1.7 59.8

Tyneside Liverpool London

% 2001 - Mln 84% 49.1 8% 5% 3% 100%