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Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran

Jonathan Werran is head of news at Localis

Articles by Jonathan Werran

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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 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...

Clegg to pledge three garden cities

By Jonathan Werran | 14 April 2014

Deputy prime minister Clegg will today announce the establishment of three new garden cities cont...

Parking is a top priority for Local Government Association

By Jonathan Werran | 11 April 2014

The Local Government Association (LGA) has agreed key legislative lobbying targets, in preparatio...

Norfolk drops £230m King's Lynn incinerator plans

By Jonathan Werran | 11 April 2014

Norfolk CC has pulled the plug on controversial plans to build a £230m energy from waste incinera...