#england-and-wales

#england-and-wales

There are around five million leasehold properties in England and Wales, of which 70% are flats. At the moment, the freeholder of a property generally owns the building and the land beneath it, outright and forever. Leaseholders effectively buy the right to live in the property for a fixed period of time. Leasehold flats are found in all sorts of properties - from converted Victorian houses to purpose built skyscrapers - and tend to be concentrated in big cities.

The study, led by academics at the University of Liverpool, examined data on more than 700,000 babies admitted to an NHS neonatal unit across England and Wales between 2012 and 2022. Babies born to black mothers had the highest mortality rates for the majority of years in the study, with an 81% higher risk of dying before discharge compared with babies born to white mothers.

The population of England and Wales grew by 700,000 in the year to June 2024, marking the second largest numerical increase since 1949.