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Move Whitehall out of London

Sep 03 2003 by Brian Amble
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The UK government's entire civil service infrastructure should be moved out of London, according to a report by think tank Catalyst.

The report claims that Government policies for the English regions will do nothing to reverse the widening North-South divide and that the trend will only be halted if it is accompanied by bold moves to disperse national public institutions away from London and the South East.

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