England United Kingdom

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England (United Kingdom)
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Geography

• Area
• total 244,820 km²
• water 3,230 km²
• land 241,590 km²
• Climate
• Temperate
• prevailing southwest winds over the North
  Atlantic Current
• gt 1/2 of the days are overcast

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Demographic data

• Total population 60,094,648 (Jul. 2003 est.)
• Median age
• total 38.4 years male 37.3 years female 39.5
  years (2002)
• Growth rate 0.3 (2003 est.)

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Ethnic composition

• English 81.5
• Scottish 9.6
• Irish 2.4
• Welsh 1.9
• Ulster 1.8
• West Indian, Indian, Pakistani, and other 2.8

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Religion

• Anglican and Roman Catholic 40 million
• Muslim 1.5 million
• Presbyterian 800,000
• Methodist 760,000
• Sikh 500,000
• Hindu 500,000
• Jewish 350,000

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Basic economic figures

• GDP per head 26,210 US (2002)
• GDP ( real change pa) 1,8 (2002)
• unemployment () 5.11 (2002)
• Labor force occupation (1999)
• agriculture 1
• industry 25
• services 74

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Government

• constitutional monarchy
• Executive branch
• Queen Elizabeth II (since 1952)
• Prime Minister
• Cabinet
• Legislative branch
• Bicameral parliament
• Judicial branch
• House of Lords
• Supreme Courts of England, Wales, and Northern
  Ireland

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Monarchy

• Queen Elizabeth II
• Head of State
• Appoints Prime Minister (based on the ruling
  majority in parliament)
• Basically only ceremonial power
• No political power any more

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Prime Minister Cabinet

• Main executive power
• Heads of Government Departments are appointed by
  Prime Minister
• Supreme decision-making body

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Parliament

• House of Lords
• examine and revise bills from the Commons
• 669 non-elected members
• final court of appeal
• Reform in 1999
• 750 peers right to sit and vote has been removed
• 92 hereditary peers are allowed to sit
  temporarily
• Originally from senior and influential nobility

• House of Commons
• 659 elected members (members of parliament)
• make laws
• discuss current political issues
• Prime Minister's Question Time
• Commons debating chamber

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Parliament election process

• Each electin constituency sends one MP to House
  of Common
• relative majority method
• No election process for House of Lords
• Their seat is hereditary

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Governing of regions

• Scotland and Wales have greater control and
  autonomy
• They have some executive and legislative powers
• Elections were held in 1999 in both the Scottish
  Parliament (Edinbrugh) and Welsh Assembly
  (Cardiff)

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Governing of regions - Scotland

• Scottish Parliament
• 129 members
• 73 directly elected on a constituency basis
• 56 elected by proportional representation
• four-year fixed term
• make laws on a whole range of matters (health,
  education, income tax...)

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Governing of regions - Wales

• Welsh Assembly
• 60 members, directly elected every four years
• able to amend laws passed at Westminster

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Governing of regions Northern Ireland

• Nothern Ireland Assembly
• Provided for in Belfast Agreement of April 1998
• First set up 2 December 1999
• 108 members
• legislative and executive powers like Scottish
  Parliament
• First Minister and Deputy First Minister, and
  10 Ministers

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Governing of regions Northern Ireland

• Has been suspended on various occasions
• 11 February 2000 until 29 May 2000
• 10 August and 21 September 2001 (eacht time
  24 hrs)
• 14 October 2002 Northern Ireland is under direct
  rule when Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
  suspended the northern Ireland assembly

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References
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