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Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran is head of news at Localis

Articles by Jonathan Werran

Fire authorities 'at limit' of efficiency savings, LGA reports

By Jonathan Werran | 10 March 2014

Further funding cuts in 2015/16 and beyond could impact on fire and rescue authorities frontline ...

Hodge: Whitehall dodging commercial scrutiny

By Jonathan Werran | 07 March 2014

Government departments hiding behind commercial confidentiality clauses to block transparency, cl...

LGA hails European demand for English councils' freedoms

By Jonathan Werran | 07 March 2014

Council chiefs welcome report from the Council of Europe (CoE) recommending greater devolution of...

Hodge 'shocked' at Help to Buy

By Jonathan Werran | 06 March 2014

PAC chair ‘shocked’ DCLG's planned £3.7bn loans investment to boost property market made without ...

Electoral reforms slammed as 'waste of money'

By Jonathan Werran | 06 March 2014

Efforts to implement Individual Electoral Registration (IER) at local level are doomed to ineffic...

Norwich crowned 'council of the year'

By Jonathan Werran | 06 March 2014

Norwich City Council scoops ‘council of the year 2014’ at the Improvement and Efficiency Social E...

Inside View: Lawyers on localism

By Jonathan Werran | 05 March 2014

Last week, two Cabinet ministers put their names to a joint opinion article in a national newspap...

Government comes under fire for bonuses

By Jonathan Werran | 05 March 2014

Government departments have come under fire for paying performance bonuses to more than 160,000 o...

PM 'must not have final say' on Whitehall posts

By Jonathan Werran | 05 March 2014

MPs have railed against proposals that would give the prime minister the effective right of veto ...

Open books for accountability, CBI urges government suppliers

By Jonathan Werran | 05 March 2014

Spending watchdogs should audit government contracts with private sector firms, CBI recommends to...