"G&M" wrote
| "IMM" wrote
| When is this government going to decentralise, starting with
| the thing it can influence - the civil service.
| Great idea. Get all the departments out of London. They started
| in the 1970s but Thatcher stopped it: Social Security at Newcastle,
| DVLA in Swansea, etc.
| I think it was more down to that episode of Yes Prime Minister when
| the head of the armed forces refused to move out of London "because
| how could the wife get to Harrods"

The Scottish Parliament wants to do something similar, but the civil
servants want to stay in Edinburgh.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/3081885.stm

Owain