Modernisation in local government

Some interesting takes on local government modernisation from NLGN reported on and in their own words. I like the idea of a "localism test" to require Whitehall to check whether any central initiative might be better carried out locally.

E-Government unit forecasts

96% of government services will be available online by 2005. Interesting factoid: there are 657 services identified across the whole of central government: this is equivalent to the services provided by one (large) local authority.