“It is the government department tasked with delivering the chancellor’s “northern powerhouse” agenda and devolving power to cities and regions. But 97.6% of senior civil servants at the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) are based in London, the government has admitted.
Just 2.4% of the DCLG’s most powerful public servants work outside the capital, according to Brandon Lewis, a DCLG minister and Tory MP for Great Yarmouth.
More and more senior civil servants across all government departments are based in London, another minister admitted. On 1 April 2010, 65.1% worked from London, compared with 67% five years later, said Matthew Hancock, minister for the Cabinet Office.”
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