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The current second-to-top tax rate in Scotland could stay at its current 41% and the top rate at its current 46%, but the threshold for paying the top rate would shift down to £100,000. The tax columns and details of the calculation are displayed in Appendix 1, Table A1.1. This...
The report found poverty rates are highest in London, the North of England, Midlands and Wales, and lowest in the South of England (excluding London), Scotland and Northern Ireland. "While the proportion of people in employment has risen consistently for six years, weak local economies in some...
Researchers at the Babraham Institute in Cambridge, southern England, have shown that the animals have a good memory system and are extremely good at recognizing faces—which they think is a sure sign of intelligence. Behavioral scientist Keith Kendrick and his friends trained 20 sheep to recognize...
In Israel, individuals with low socioeconomic status had almost twice the risk of carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (CRAB) colonisation and bacteraemia compared to counterparts in high socioeconomic strata (OR = 2.18, 95% CI: 1.02–5). The population-based case-control study conducte...
Molecular and serological surveillance for Mycobacterium leprae and Mycobacterium lepromatosis in Wild Red Squirrels (Sciurus vulgaris) from Scotland and Northern England. Animals (Basel). 2024;14(13):2005. Article PubMed Google Scholar Pierneef L, Malaviya P, van Hooij A, Sundar S, Singh AK...
The means to tackle fuel poverty depend on the area you are talking about: England and Wales has different legislation to Scotland when it comes to fuel poverty and there is a range of policy, legislation and schemes in place at local and national level to do this. But broadly speaking the...
Although these figures only represent England, the issue could be even more severe in other UK nations. In Scotland, 900,000 households - just under 40% - are expected to be fuel poor under the new cap, with 600,000 of those in "extreme fuel poverty", according Ene...
UK – England LILEE A household falls in poverty if its energy efficiency rating is band D or below and its residual income is below the official poverty line [18] UK-Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland 10 % Households must spend over 10 % of their income on fuel to qualify as fuel ...
Scotland developed its own poor law regime during the sixteenth century. Its revision, in 1845, saw relatively little use of the workhouse compared with a more extensive system of outdoor relief. The English 1834 ‘New’ Poor Law established unions across England and Wales, and laid down guidel...