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Conservatives plan to ditch ContactPoint database
News The shadow education secretary has said the Conservatives would replace the directory of all children in England with a small, targeted system. A Conservative party spokesperson confirmed a report in The Daily Telegraph that Michael Gove, the...
[September 30, 2008, 12:56]
Conservatives promise help for green tech start-ups
News The Conservatives also detailed plans to introduce a green index to trade the shares of companies doing business in the environmental sector from the UK and around the world. Conservative leader David Cameron has today set out plans that could see...
[January 6, 2009, 8:03]
Conservatives press for open-source push
News David Cameron has declared that a Conservative government would favour a greater use of open-source software. In a speech to the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts on 3 April, the leader of the Conservative Party called for...
[April 7, 2008, 11:00]
Google chief addresses Conservatives
News Google chief executive Eric Schmidt brought some Internet glamour to the Conservative party on Tuesday when he gave a keynote address at their annual conference in Bournemouth. Schmidt told the audience of party activists and MPs that they had a...
[October 3, 2006, 16:30]
Conservatives defend Pentagon surveillance plan
News A Pentagon data-mining project to sift through corporate and government records and spot suspicious activity is necessary to thwart terrorism, two proponents of the plan said on Wednesday. The Total Information Awareness (TIA) project, being...
[April 3, 2003, 8:29]
Tories plan to block Internet snooping Bill
News According to shadow Home Office Minister Anne Widdecombe, the conservatives are considering withdrawing support for the Bill over the issue of proving the legal authorities with encryption keys. According to Anne Widdecombe's press officer "the...
[March 9, 2000, 9:01]
What if Google Health Crashes?
Talkback From the graphic on this piece and the headline I thought you might extrapolate into the implications for the Conservatives' recent Electronic Medical Record plan which looks like it could be based around Google Health or Microsoft's Health Vault...
[September 2, 2009, 18:01]
Tories attack government policy on cybercrime
News The Conservatives have criticised the government's response to the growing threat from cybercrime, unveiling plans for a national e-crime unit and a dedicated e-crime minister if they win the next election.
[March 7, 2008, 9:04]
Lib Dems: Don't count on Tories over surveillance
News The Conservatives do not go far enough in opposing government surveillance and databases, Liberal Democrat shadow ministers have argued at their annual conference. If the Conservatives are really against the surveillance state, why do they promise...
[September 23, 2009, 8:45]
ID card bill gets Tory boost
News After months of opposition wrangling, the Conservatives have pledged their support to the government's ID card bill, which the party had previously described as "deeply flawed". Some senior Conservatives had voiced dissatisfaction about the plans...
[December 14, 2004, 13:55]
Even £100m is too much... if it's the wrong project
Talkback The Conservatives’ recent proposal for a £100m cap on government IT projects is grounded on an appropriate and sensible ambition to reduce the amount of money wasted on IT projects. Reacting to the spiralling costs of the much-delayed NHS computer...
[January 30, 2009, 15:22]
The issues making IT a political hot potato
Comment The even-handed approach would be nice, but when the Conservatives were last in power, we were struggling with the idea of networking Windows 95 computers and only a few weird geeks were babbling about vast global virtual networks.
[August 27, 2009, 12:59]
Election 2001: Political parties show their IT stripes
News Labour, the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats have all outlined their policies on IT. Amid accusations of bandwagon jumping, the Conservatives promised to scrap the controversial IR35 tax on contractors.
[May 25, 2001, 10:57]
Election 2001: Labour trails Web site poll
News The Conservatives took up to 15 seconds and the Liberal Democrats 29. The Conservatives are also employing new technology and have launched an email blitz in key marginal seats in the last week of the election.
[June 7, 2001, 16:28]
Tories attack Labour surveillance schemes
News He said the Conservatives would cut form-filling requirements and scrap targets for police forces. We're winning the arguments on freedom, and David Davis deserves the credit for his stand," said Grieve, adding that the Conservatives would "meet...
[October 1, 2008, 13:18]
Tories: Government is falling behind in open source
News In the statement, the Conservatives released recommendations drawn up by Mark Thompson, a lecturer in information systems at Cambridge University's Judge Business School. Thompson was asked by the Conservatives in March to assess how open source...
[January 28, 2009, 12:41]
E-voting 'must be dropped'
News Heald said the Conservatives welcome the cancellation of the plan, and that they consider e-voting to be vulnerable to fraud. The Conservatives said the statement refers to voting by Internet, text message or telephone, and does not refer to voting...
[September 8, 2005, 17:05]
Tories liable to compensate ID scheme vendors
News The spokesperson added that "nothing has been created bespoke" to deal with the Conservatives' intentions, and that the figures involved in cancellation are commercially confidential. Only the deal to produce identity cards, due to be announced in...
[May 29, 2008, 8:48]
News Schmooze: MOM wants you to pay Microsoft
News The Tories have even indulged in a spot of domain name hijacking -- one of their cronies has registered www.newlabour.co.uk, which points to the Conservative Party's official site at conservatives.com, with a holding banner asking surfers to...
[May 11, 2001, 14:29]
Manchester ID card registration date announced
News Herbert noted that the Conservatives have pledged to scrap the cards if they win the next general election. The figure of £30 per card was disputed by the Conservatives in October, who said that 28 million people would need to sign up to the scheme...
[November 16, 2009, 14:57]
