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Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran is head of news at Localis

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ECONOMIC GROWTH

Business backing for 'growth' Bill

By Jonathan Werran | 24 October 2012

Leading business groups approve the main planks of new legislation aimed at boosting investment i...

WHITEHALL

Management of benefit claimants' medical checks 'must be tighter'

By Jonathan Werran | 24 October 2012

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) urged to improve management of controversial medical a...

FINANCE

Rebels force Bill to include CTB clause

By Jonathan Werran | 24 October 2012

Rebel Liberal Democrat peers have helped force an amendment to the Local Government Finance Bill,...

WHITEHALL

Civil service standards

By Jonathan Werran | 24 October 2012

The more the public learn of how they're governed, the less they trust. Jonathan Werran asks if a...

WHITEHALL

Mandarins 'hinder Total Place moves'

By Jonathan Werran | 24 October 2012

Influential MPs have criticised Whitehall’s rigid budget protocols for hindering Total Place-styl...

FINANCE

Peers pass CTB amendment

By Jonathan Werran | 23 October 2012

Lib Dem peers help pass amendment to Local Government Finance Bill that would force the Governmen...

FINANCE

Business rate delay 'shot in the foot' for high streets, claims BPF

By Jonathan Werran | 19 October 2012

Property experts have condemned the decision by ministers to postpone business rates revaluation ...

FINANCE

MPs welcome Ombudsman's reforms

By Jonathan Werran | 17 October 2012

CLG Committee praises the Local Government Ombudsman’s ‘positive response’ to calls for improvement.

WHITEHALL

'Spads' in the thick of it

By Jonathan Werran | 17 October 2012

Jonathan Werran explains how special advisers play a vital role in keeping the politics in policy.

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Huge rise in long-term unemployed youth

By Jonathan Werran | 17 October 2012

Long-term youth unemployment has increased by almost one-quarter since the coalition came to powe...

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