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Conscription. National service is the system of compulsory or voluntary government service, usually military service. Conscription is mandatory national service. The term national service comes from the United Kingdom's National Service (Armed Forces) Act 1939. [1] [2] The length and nature of national service depends on the country in question.
The United Kingdom National DNA Database ( NDNAD; officially the UK National Criminal Intelligence DNA Database) is a national DNA Database that was set up in 1995. In 2005 it had 3.1 million profiles and in 2020 it had 6.6 million profiles (5.6 million individuals excluding duplicates). [1] [2] 270,000 samples were added to the database in ...
The National House Building Council ( NHBC) states its primary purpose as raising the construction standards of new homes in the United Kingdom (UK), and providing consumer protection for homebuyers through its 10-year Buildmark warranty. [citation needed] Established in 1936, NHBC is the UK's largest provider of new home warranties.
www .parliament .uk. The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland [d] is the supreme legislative body [e] of the United Kingdom, and may also legislate for the Crown Dependencies and the British Overseas Territories. [3] [4] It meets at the Palace of Westminster in London.
nsandi .com. National Savings and Investments ( NS&I ), formerly called the Post Office Savings Bank and National Savings, is a state-owned savings bank in the United Kingdom. It is both a non-ministerial government department [1] and an executive agency of HM Treasury. [2] The aim of NS&I has been to attract funds from individual savers in the ...
National Health Service (England) The National Health Service ( NHS) is the publicly funded healthcare system in England, and one of the four National Health Service systems in the United Kingdom. It is the second largest single-payer healthcare system in the world after the Brazilian Sistema Único de Saúde.
In other sports, especially individual Olympic sports such as athletics, swimming, cycling and triathlon, or those team sports invented outside the United Kingdom, e.g. basketball, baseball, ice hockey and volleyball, the United Kingdom generally participates as one nation, usually under the name Great Britain or, more rarely, as Great Britain ...
The National Forest is an environmental project in central England run by The National Forest Company. From the 1990s, 200 square miles (520 km 2) of north Leicestershire, south Derbyshire and southeast Staffordshire have been planted in an attempt to blend ancient woodland with newly planted areas to create a new national forest.