North/South drift in the UK

Question 1

What does this link to?

Answer 1

Internal migration

Question 2

What are the causes?

Answer 2

Push:
- deindustrialisation; closure of heavy industries eg. ship building has led to high levels of unemployment

Pull:
- the “brain drain”; young people moving south for higher education

Question 3

What are the effects?

Answer 3

North, negative:
- Services lost, eg. schools and hospitals

South, negative:
- Traffic congestion, eg. M25

Question 4

How is it managed?

Answer 4

• Government jobs are being moved between regions, eg. 500 jobs in educational administration being moved to Coventry from Central London
• 20,000 jobs moved from London, eg. BBC now based in Salford.