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Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran is head of news at Localis

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FINANCE

Head of council lending quango forced to resign

By Jonathan Werran | 22 April 2014

Chair of the PWLB, the Treasury body responsible for lending billions of pounds to councils, resi...

FINANCE

Salford extends probe into council director's departure

By Jonathan Werran | 22 April 2014

Salford Council’s internal audit team has extended investigation into the departure of former str...

FINANCE

Bridgend staff to strike as council pulls out of 1% pay deal

By Jonathan Werran | 22 April 2014

Council staff in Bridgend vote for strike action after the authority refuses to honour national 1...

CLIMATE CHANGE

Pickles 'playing politics' with UK energy policy

By Jonathan Werran | 17 April 2014

Renewables industry alleges communities secretary's decision to extend 'temporary’ powers to pull...

WHITEHALL

Ministers give G4S go-ahead to compete for contracts

By Jonathan Werran | 16 April 2014

Ministers have given under-fire Government contractor G4S the all-clear to compete for public sec...

WHITEHALL

Scot 'yes vote' deficit blow

By Jonathan Werran | 16 April 2014

An independent Scotland would have a per-capita fiscal deficit second only to the USA, the Treasu...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

LGA: garden city schemes must be locally accountable

By Jonathan Werran | 16 April 2014

Proposals to establish a new wave of garden cities must be led by locally accountable bodies and ...

FINANCE

Aiming for the endgame

By Jonathan Werran | 15 April 2014

The final Queen’s Speech of the current five-year fixed-term Parliament will be delivered on 3 Ju...

FINANCE

Local PACs could boost oversight of devolved services, CfPS advises

By Jonathan Werran | 15 April 2014

The Centre for Public Scrutiny (CfPS) rcommends establising local versions of the Commons Public ...

WHITEHALL

Whitehall Inside View - won't be fooled again

By Jonathan Werran | 14 April 2014

Cross-party review of Whitehall suggests mandarins have no wiggle room, whoever wins next general...

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