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**Chris** · 30-11-2010, 20:28

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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet

Kinda. To be more exact London and the South subsidise the rest of the UK, Scotland is the 3rd highest value per head region, ahead of all of England apart from the above, however it has higher public spending.

The most subsidised area is Wales, followed by the North East then the North West. The South East and London subsidise the most, the South West is the only other region, full stop, that pays its own bills.

http://www.statistics.gov.uk/pdfdir/gva1209.pdf
http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/d/pesa0809chapter9.xls http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/20...n-page-13.html

None of which is remotely surprising in a country that has valued extreme centralization of both business and government over many years.

The trend has thankfully begun to be reversed in recent years (the decentralization of the BBC is a good example of it). Scotland suffers to an unreasonable degree because of this. It is, historically and even today in terms of much of its legal and administrative infrastructure, a distinct nation in its own right (much more so than Wales, which has never had any political identity in any meaningful, modern sense).