'Putting a bit of a government department in Leeds and asking a few more officials to do work experience in Doncaster – though reasonable ideas in themselves – just isn’t going to be the solution.'
and to different sectors. He said: “I want to see civil servants in Yorkshire and working for our fantastic businesses here – so that they understand the issues facing those businesses.”
Sunak’s ideas sit in the same category as current efforts to shift parts of central government departments to different cities around the country. It’s therefore no surprise that the lion’s share of funding – for research and development, for transport, and more – ends up in London and the South East. This structural and cultural over-centralisation is also why local public health experts were so often excluded from the heart of the pandemic response.
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