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Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove has said that parts of the civil service will be moved out of London to other English regions.
Speaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, Gove said that it was ‘vitally important that decision makers are close to people’ and that moving more branches of the service out of London would help to distribute ‘opportunity, jobs and investment fairly’ across the country.
The Institute for Government estimates that 83,500 out of a total of 430,000 civil servants are London-based, with more civil servants working in the capital than any other part of the UK.
Other political parties have also called for more parts of Whitehall to be moved out of London. In its 2019 manifesto, Labour proposed moving part of the Treasury to northern England. Recent reports claim that the government is considering moving the House of Lords to York.
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