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Available public reporting based on the 2021 census and 2025 summaries puts the UK Muslim share at roughly 6% of the overall population (Britain-wide), with England specifically around 6.7% and Scotla...
Junior (resident) doctors in the UK are paid on structured NHS scales that vary by training grade, location and extra “enhancements” for nights, weekends and on‑call; basic pay for junior doctors rang...
The UK’s Muslim population rose from about 1.6 million in 2001 to roughly 4.0 million in 2021, making Muslims about 6% of the overall UK population according to the Muslim Council of Britain’s census ...
The best available 2021-census–based estimates put the Muslim population in England and Wales at roughly 4.0 million people, which various analysts translate into depending on the geographic denominat...
The available analyses agree that , with Birmingham, parts of Greater London (notably Tower Hamlets and Newham), Bradford, Manchester, Leicester, Luton and Blackburn with Darwen among the places repea...
The proportion of the UK population that is depends on the dataset and geography referenced: the 2021 Census figures imply roughly with UK-wide estimates varying by nation, while some analyses and pro...
The 2021 Census counted roughly 3.9 million people identifying as Muslim in England and Wales (about 6.5% of that population), up from about 2.7 million in 2011 — an increase of roughly 1.16 million o...
Official census reporting and multiple analyses show fewer than half of people in the UK now describe themselves as Christian: around 46–46.6% in the 2021 census-derived releases (England & Wales / UK...
The most authoritative, publicly available baseline comes from the 2021 England and Wales census, which recorded Muslims as 6.5% of the population (about 3.87–3.9 million people) on census day — the f...
The most reliable post-2011 benchmark across the provided analyses places the Muslim population in England and Wales at about , representing roughly , and when adding Scotland and Northern Ireland the...
Clinical practice, research and policy on puberty blockers for transgender and gender-diverse youth are in active dispute: systematic reviews and recent critical reviews show limited high‑certainty ev...
The most recent authoritative breakdown for ethnic composition comes from the 2021 Census: (Asian, Black, Mixed, Other) in published detailed categories . No single source in the provided set gives an...
In 2024 people convicted of online hate speech in the UK faced penalties that fall into three broad categories: custodial sentences, fines and community-based punishments, and sentencing “uplifts” whe...
The available data shows , with other major centres including Bradford, Manchester and Newham/Tower Hamlets in London; figures differ by whether one counts whole cities, metropolitan areas or specific...
HMRC does not run a blanket program that simply tracks how often Britons travel abroad to determine tax liability; official statements and reporting show the department instead uses targeted checks an...
Existing material in the supplied analyses does not offer a firm numeric projection of the ; instead, sources describe recent growth and longer-term projections for the UK or Europe without a specific...
The Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW), published and summarised by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), shows that reported sexual assault victimisation varies across ethnic groups but th...
There is no single, clear figure in the provided reporting that states how many people were prosecuted specifically for online hate speech in the UK in 2024; official datasets report hate crime prosec...
The 2021 Census shows about 4 million people identifying as Muslim in Britain, concentrated in England where Muslims make up about 6.7% of the population, with much smaller shares in Scotland (2.2%), ...
The best available 2025 summary of census material from the Muslim Council of Britain estimates there are about 4 million Muslims in Britain and reports Muslim shares of the population by nation: Engl...