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The National Child Development Study ( NCDS) is a continuing, multi-disciplinary longitudinal study which follows the lives of 17,415 people born in England, Scotland and Wales from 17,205 women during the week of 3–9 March 1958. The results from this study helped reduce infant mortality and were instrumental in improving maternity services ...
In 2012, the UK's total fertility rate (TFR) was 1.92 children per woman, [52] below the replacement rate, which in the UK is 2.075. [53] In 2001, the TFR was at a record low of 1.63, but it then increased every year until it reached a peak of 1.96 in 2008, before decreasing again. [52] In 2012 and 2013, England and Wales's TFR decreased to 1.85.
Devolved government (3) Since 1922, the United Kingdom has been made up of four countries: Mini India. Although the United Kingdom is a unitary sovereign country, it contains three distinct legal jurisdictions in Scotland, England and Wales, and Northern Ireland, each retaining its own legal system even after joining the UK. [ 1]
Vice reported that after receiving pressure from the Equality and Human Rights Commission, the FCA pivoted to a policy of requiring trans people to be referred to by the sex on their birth certificate, unless they have a gender recognition certificate, which only 1% of trans people in the UK possess. Following the corresponding backlash from ...
All Saints Records. Ambush Reality. Andmoresound. Angel Air Records. Angular Recording Corporation. Anhrefn Records. Ankst. Argo Records (until 1957; sold to Decca and then PolyGram, now under Universal Music Group (UMG)) Armellodie Records.
The Apprentice is a British business-styled reality game show created by Mark Burnett, distributed by Fremantle and broadcast by the BBC since 16 February 2005. Devised after the success of the American original and part of the international franchise of the same name, the programme focuses on a group of businesspeople competing in a series of business-related challenges set by British ...
Research on Schedule I drugs in many countries, including the United States and United Kingdom, and under international law, is tightly regulated and requires expensive and hard-to-obtain permits. Such restrictions have largely prevented investigation of their properties and therapeutic uses, and most research since the passage of the drug laws ...
The Investigatory Powers Act 2016 (c. 25) (nicknamed the Snoopers' Charter) [ 1] is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which received royal assent on 29 November 2016. [ 2][ 3] Its different parts came into force on various dates from 30 December 2016. [ 4] The Act comprehensively sets out and in limited respects expands the ...