Civil service: Call to move 50,000 officials out of London
BBC News Published image copyrightPA Media image captionOnly one in five civil servants work in London - but they are the ones with the real power Moving 50,000 civil servants out of London to the north of England could give the region a £3bn economic boost, a report endorsed by Tory MPs argues. The Northern Policy Foundation said re-locating entire departments would help reduce the North-South divide and could improve public services over time. It is proposing moving the Treasury to Leeds, the Home Office to Newcastle and the Department of Health to Liverpool. The government plans to shift...