Wednesday, 29 May 2013

WELFARE

 

 
                                                        bravetheworld.com (2013)


1- How many families are dependent on benefits and what are the reasons for this.
About 20.3 million people are taking benefits from the UK government. 20.3 million Families are taking different kind of benefits (64% of all families), 8.7 million people are pensioners. 9.6 million Families are taking benefits of half of their income. (30% of all families). Around 5.3 million people of them are pensioners. Government should reduce their
2- What is the opinion of the government? What changes/reforms have they made and how do they justify these?
The government want to make some major changes in taxes like to reduce the housing benefits etc. The government has been introduced many policies like benefit claimant policy for jobs, cut welfare bills, and introducing council tax etc. The government stance is clear that people should change their ways of treating system and they need to rebuild their culture.



Bibliography:

The Guardian (2013) Benefits in Britain: separating the facts from the fiction Available at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/apr/06/welfare-britain-facts-myths (Accessed: 29May 2013).
Tourianski J. (2013) Do as I say,not as I do Available at: http://bravetheworld.com/ (Accessed: 29 May 2013)

Wednesday, 22 May 2013

Language

Urdu Language

 

                                                     timesofummah (2013)


Urdu is spoken by 100 million people around the world and a large number of people are living in UK who speaks Urdu. In UK the population of Urdu speakers are around 100 thousand. Urdu is spoken all over the UK but the most popular arrears are include northern towns such as Manchester, Leeds and Bradford, parts of Scotland and the West Midlands, and various parts of London. The majority of Urdu speakers are having Pakistani and Indian nationality. Urdu is the fifth larger speaking language in the UK and some of parliamentarians in UK are British born Pakistani.



Reference:

BBC (2013) urdu Available at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/voices/multilingual/urdu.shtml (Accessed: 22 May 2013)

Urdu (2013) Urdu speaking communities in the UK Available at: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/atlas/urdu/community.html (Accessed: 22 May 2013)