Central government should consider relocating civil servants to outer London boroughs as part of its cost cutting drive.

The government is looking to relocate 15,000 civil servants following a report by former Reed Elsevier chief executive Ian Smith earlier this year. However, the BCO conference heard that, rather than sending the jobs to the UK regions, London’s outer boroughs could host the relocated public sector staff.

This could include moves to developments in Stratford and around the Olympics site in east London after 2012.

Sir Simon Milton, deputy mayor responsible for policy and planning at the Greater London Authority, said: “The future for the outer london boroughs is public sector jobs. Rather than exporting them out to places round the country, we could look not just at places like croydon but new places like Stratford.”

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