Depends on your contract. Also, your employer doesn't have to give you any specific days off and can in fact tell you when you're off instead.
The law only says you have to have a minimum of 5.6 weeks off a year, but not when you get them :(
5.6 weeks? Really? A lot of places only offer 22 or 23 days. Though it would explain why the NHS have generously given me 27 days holiday this year.
Or are you including public holidays? If you are, then the NHS are /really/ generous.
Tends to include bank holidays.
I think I get 30 plus bank holidays. But I do work for a university.
It's 28 days per year including Bank Holidays.
Rest of Europe tends to get 28-ish days + bank holidays :\