But research by the Association of London Government shows that property companies are providing finance to help people buy their houses.
The Scots who came to dominate London government, politics, many areas of business and also media were from a generation who left education in the 1980s, looked around, saw little opportunity, and got out.
"Our overarching recommendation is that funding arrangements in London should allow London government to make additional self-determined investments in its own infrastructure both to cater for the growth already forecast for its population and economy, and to promote additional economic growth, " the report says.
The government's consultative green paper on London, published on July 29th, meets the desire of most movers and shakers in the capital, as well as most of its inhabitants judging from opinion polls, for a new layer of London government both to represent the city at national level and to help resolve a growing transport crisis.
Shaw will certainly get the better deal with the government and London has nobody to turn over to the government to help his case.
Aberdonians may think that government from London and Edinburgh gives them a bum deal, but government from Edinburgh alone could be a lot worse.
The commission says London's government should take full control of the tax, determining the number and range of bands, and each authority setting its rate, free of government constraint.
It is in response to budget savings required by the government and London Mayor Boris Johnson.
"Compared to most of us, the Tory-led government in London are the new kids on the block!"
London Assembly asked the government to make it a "duty" for councils to ensure adequate levels of public toilets.
Both unions attacked the government and London Underground managers who had refused to go to mediation over the dispute.
About a third of the funding is coming from local government in London and higher business rates in the city.
He was apologising for a recent controversy over trading activity by Citigroup in London that had disrupted government-bond markets, including Italy's.
Argentina's foreign minister has turned down a Foreign Office invitation to meet members of the Falkland Islands government in London next week.
The prime minister's annual speech, delivered at the Lord Mayor's banquet at Guildhall in London, outlines the government's foreign policy priorities for the year ahead.
In Scotland it happened because there was a clear sense of alienation between the Scottish electorate and a government in London that seemed too remote.
Now, the U.S. Justice Department is examining whether Alamoudi was conspiring with a London group the Saudi government says is linked to Osama bin Laden.
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"The government in London must recognise that the Barnett formula does not meet the needs of the people of Wales and must be replaced, " he said.
Former Sports and Culture Minister Kate Hoey and former Environment Minister John Gummer, were presenting a copy of the latest study, by British Marine Technology Limited, to the government in London.
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In December, the government extended London Midland's franchise up to September 2015, despite the prime minister warning action could be taken against the train operator if it did not reduce the number of cancellations.
She unpicks other tangles too: the tense relationship between the impatient, ill-informed underground leadership in Poland and the divided, ill-led exiled government in London, sidelined and then dumped by the allies as the Soviet armies marched west.
At the Belfast rally, organised by the Northern Ireland Committee of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (Ictu), assistant general secretary Peter Bunting said Stormont must not "slavishly" cut back on the say-so of the government in London.
The mayor of London has accused the government of inertia in putting off decisions on airport expansion in the south east of England until after the next election, and said the timetable sets a course for economic catastrophe.
Whether or not Mrs Thatcher would have wanted to abolish the GLC if Livingstone had not been the leader (and different Tory ministers of the time now say different things about that), the fact is that she did abolish city government in London in 1986.
Such meetings are typically not made public, a government spokesman told London's Telegraph newspaper.
London Councils is urging the government to help tackle the problem in the capital.
"The government, the London Mayor and councils are major stakeholders in hosting the games, " a spokeswoman said.
But an official from the Government Office for London (GOL) warned of the political problems that could cause.
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The judges also suggested the U.S. government had pressured London about the intelligence-sharing relationship should the documents be released.
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Because government departments in London control the purse strings, they also like to keep track of how money is spent.
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