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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Helen William

Efforts to move civil servants out of London ‘going backwards’

Government commercial functions are all headquartered in Whitehall or the city (Yui Mok/PA)

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Efforts to move civil servants out of London are “going backwards”, a new report has claimed.

Since 2018, one in three civil servants has been recruited in the city, meaning the number of civil servants has grown twice as fast in London, at 22 per cent, than it has in regions outside the capital.

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