Whitaker's concise 2019

Whitaker's Concise 2019 is the definitive reference guide to the UK. The concise edition is a UK-centric gold-mine of information with enormous breadth of coverage.
At a fraction of the price of the standard edition, the reader with an
interest in UK facts and figures is really getting value for money.The concise edition contains
a comprehensive explanation of every aspect of national and local
government infrastructure in the UK, astronomical and tidal data for 2019, guides to UK law, education and taxation, overviews of
the water, energy and transport industries,
essential calendar information, chapters on royalty and peerage, Defence, complete results for each constituency from the last UK General Election and an up-to-date list of MPs, government departments and public bodies - quite simply, the UK in one volume!Our
dedicated team of both in-house
editors and specialist contributors
spend a total of 6,000 hours, updating Whitaker's annually - this
includes contacting over 5,000
people to update their own
organisation's details, researching information from official annual reports, and gathering statistics and facts from the most up-to-date
authoritative sources available.Completely revised and
continually updated throughout the year at least 60% of the contents are
newly compiled specifically for this edition. Around 2,000 hours of editorial time is dedicated to verifying every piece of information to ensure that, unlike collaborative online sources such as Wikipedia, all the material in Whitaker's is neutral and reliable.'If you want to know it... it's here' John Humphrys