The UK's Evolving Human Landscape

Question 1

What are enterprise zones?

Answer 1

Geographic regions that are given special status by a government to encourage development and economic growth in the area (e.g. Luton Airport).

Question 2

What is a benefit to an enterprise zones?

Answer 2

Businesses who set up in enterprise zones get lower ‘business rates’ and tax relief on investments, encouraging development & growth in the area.

Question 3

How is the UK government attempting to reduce the differences in wealth in the UK?

Answer 3

• The government is investing in transport infrastructure.
• For example, HS2 is a high-speed rail link intended to connect London with Birmingham and Manchester in half the current travel time.
• Theoretically, this connects the north of the UK to the south.
• However, the northern section to Manchester and Leeds has been scrapped.

Question 4

What age group has increased the most due to migration to the UK?

Answer 4

The 20-29 age group.

Question 5

Describe how UK immigration policies have affected the UK’s diversity.

Answer 5

Lots of men died due to WW2, causing a labour shortage. The UK invited lots of people from the Commonwealth to come to the UK.
People moved from India, Pakistan, and the Caribbean.
Persecution in places like Kenya meant lots of these people migrated to the UK in the 1960s and 1970s
The UK reduced migration from the Commonwealth in 1962 as there was no longer such a labour shortage.

Question 6

Describe how EU immigration policies have affected the UK’s diversity.

Answer 6

• The EU has allowed the free movement of people between member countries since 1995.
• Lots of people migrated to the UK from countries like Germany, France, and the Netherlands.
• Lots of people migrated from countries that have recently joined the EU e.g. Poland.

Question 7

Immigrants from what countries filled skills shortages in the UK workforce after World War II?

Answer 7

• Pakistan
• India
• Caribbean

Question 8

What % of population growth in the UK is driven by migration?
What drives the other part?

Answer 8

50%

The other half is driven by a natural increase.

Question 10

Give 2 reason why supermarkets are more likely to be built within the centres of UK towns and cities in the 2020s. [2 marks]

Answer 10

• Lack of planning permission to build on outskirts.
• Closer to where people live for convenience shopping.
• Lots of small sites to repurpose.
• Any other reasonable answer

Question 11

State which new Commonwealth country was found to have provided the largest number of non-UK-born residents at the 2011 census.

Answer 11

India.