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[6] [7] This has largely been because of the UK's fall from the top 10 in the CPI. [8] [9] [10] The Bribery Act 2010 is currently the most relevant law in the United Kingdom that punishes public and private bribery. The law does not make any distinction in sentencing between those who bribe (or are bribed) in the public or private sector. [5]
The Government had committed to dealing with this by amending its own Bill in the House of Lords, however, Home Affairs Select Committee Chair Dame Diana Johnson pushed it to the vote while the Government had a 3-line whip against the amendment. Labour had announced its support for the amendment the previous day.
Urgent, co-ordinated action is required across all levels of Government in the UK in order to tackle Scotland’s health inequalities, a Holyrood inquiry has found.
Pie chart of UK government spending, 2023-24. [2]The most significant area of government spending is welfare (£341 billion in financial year 2023-24), [2] with the largest single element of this being for the State Pension, which totals £124 billion.
The UK has seen a drastic increase in the usage of foodbanks nationwide: 2.17m food bank users in 2021/22 in comparison to the 41,000 in 2009/10. [57] During the COVID-19 crisis, food insecurity impacted 16% of the population, and some critics argue that government food aid was instigated too late for the elderly and vulnerable.
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The charity said “big inequalities” in UK pensioner incomes mean it is only a minority living with moderate or comfortable incomes (17%) while most survive on minimum incomes or live in ...
This is a list of countries by inequality-adjusted Human Development Index (IHDI), as published by the UNDP in its 2024 Human Development Report.According to the 2016 Report, "The IHDI can be interpreted as the level of human development when inequality is accounted for", whereas the Human Development Index itself, from which the IHDI is derived, is "an index of potential human development (or ...