"Terry Harper" wrote in message
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On Sun, 08 May 2005 08:51:51 GMT, (Neil
Williams) wrote:

I've long said there should be serious tax breaks
for companies relocating their HQs out of London
to other cities, particularly in the North.

Maybe HMG should be the first to reduce the tax burden
by doing this with its own offices? Maybe even outsourcing
to India or further afield?

Well, the MOD has been outsourced to Washington DC.

--
John Rowland - Spamtrapped
Transport Plans for the London Area, updated 2001
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acro...69/tpftla.html
A man's vehicle is a symbol of his manhood.
That's why my vehicle's the Piccadilly Line -
It's the size of a county and it comes every two and a half minutes

Have we all forgotten the LOB (Location of Offices Bureau) and those
cute advertisements on London Subway trains?

During the Seventy's and early Eighties they helped companies leave
London. Indeed that is why Milton Keyes and the enlarged Basingstoke
exist.

By the late 1980s the LOB's role had changed. At that point they were
encouraging companies to move TO London.

One assumes the LOB was quietly put to sleep during the Thatcher years.

A.