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Minister presses for green government IT
News Speaking at the European Ministerial eGovernment Conference in Lisbon on Thursday, Cabinet Office minister Gillian Merron called on the UK Chief Information Officers Council to reduce the carbon footprint of government computers and improve the...
[September 21, 2007, 7:46]
Minister: NHS must take tech risks
News Cutbacks in technology spending are the wrong remedy for the NHS in an economic downturn, according a junior minister at the Department of Health. However, cultural change is necessary for innovative technology and practices to take hold, said the...
[June 19, 2009, 14:46]
No, Minister, the figures don't add up
Leader What hacking attacks might those be, Minister? The Minister is peering at his computer. Minister, minister. The MoD is very secure, Minister. By no means, Minister! Same with the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, two in four years at the...
[July 12, 2005, 13:45]
Minister calls for return to e-basics
News The minister responsible for leading the take-up of electronic services within government departments has called for a return to the values and beliefs of the people who created the Internet. Douglas Alexander, the minister of state responsible for...
[November 19, 2002, 13:47]
New e-minister named
News Douglas Alexander, the MP for Paisley South, has been named as minister for e-commerce and competitiveness. It is possible that Alexander's responsibilities will differ slightly from those of his predecessor, who was the minister for "small...
[June 12, 2001, 8:33]
Farewell to the technophobe prime minister
News Back in 2005, the Liberal Democrat's IT spokesman Richard Allan asked if it was true that on a personal level the prime minister was something of a technophobe. I am afraid that is fair actually, yes," said the Prime Minister.
[June 27, 2007, 9:07]
E-commerce minister reshuffled to Treasury
News The UK's e-commerce minister, Stephen Timms, has been moved to a role in the Treasury as a result of last week's Cabinet reshuffle by the prime minister, Tony Blair. Timms took over the role of minister for ecommerce and competitiveness at the...
[September 15, 2004, 13:55]
E-minister warns UK business of hacker threat
News The Government's e-minister Patricia Hewitt stated just how important fighting the forces of cyber-crime is to the government's vision of a digitally rejuvenated Britain at the Infosec conference in Olympia Tuesday.
[April 12, 2000, 9:15]
Telco sues Australian minister over WiMax scheme
News Telstra has lodged a complaint against Australia's communications minister, Helen Coonan, over the funding of the AU$1bn (£421m) WiMax network intended to bring broadband to bush users across Australia.
[August 6, 2007, 16:09]
UK government minister joins pirate raids
News UK culture minister Kim Howells has attended a dawn raid on an address used to distribute pirated games software. In the early hours of Wednesday morning Kim Howells, culture minister for the UK, joined a raid being led by Cardiff Trading Standards...
[December 4, 2002, 16:42]
Prime Minister admits being a technophobe
News Prime Minister Tony Blair has confounded critics who claim he is unable to give a direct answer to anything by freely admitting that he is a technophobe. During a session of the Parliamentary liaison committee on Monday, the Liberal Democrat IT...
[February 9, 2005, 12:50]
E-government minister named
News Nearly a month after the cabinet reshuffle, it has finally been decided which minister will be looking after the e-government agenda. McFadden, a parliamentary secretary at the Cabinet Office, was elected as the MP for Wolverhampton South East in...
[May 31, 2006, 16:30]
Shadow minister urges 'rethink' of IT spending
News The UK government spends more on IT than any other government, says the shadow minister responsible for reviewing the sector. Francis Maude, the shadow Cabinet Office minister, said that if the UK government spent the same per person on IT as the...
[October 8, 2009, 9:11]
E-minister: Britain will be broadband leader
News E-minister Patricia Hewitt has rejected mounting criticisms about broadband Britain, claiming everything is on track for the UK to be the best place in the industrialised world for high-speed services by 2005.
[April 24, 2001, 10:57]
Q&A: Australia's 'Luddite' IT minister
News In this exclusive interview, ZDNet Australia spoke with Australia's controversial minister for IT and telecommunications, Richard Alston, who has been criticised in the high-tech industry for his policies on Internet regulation, junk email and...
[November 29, 2002, 10:19]
E-commerce minister: No rural broadband subsidies
News In an exclusive interview with ZDNet UK, the e-commerce minister Stephen Timms said he supported the decision of his predecessor, Douglas Alexander, not to provide tax breaks to support infrastructure rollout -- as was recommended by the Broadband...
[June 24, 2002, 14:11]
Tech leaders lobby Prime Minister over sustainable IT
News Senior management from two of the IT industry's leading companies are involved in discussions with the UK Prime Minister over how industry and government can work together to tackle the issue of climate change ahead of the G8 conference next month.
[June 8, 2005, 15:55]
New e-government minister appointed
News The UK has a new minister responsible for e-government following the Cabinet reshuffle. David Miliband is the new minister responsible for e-government as part of his Cabinet Office brief, it was announced on 16 December 2004.
[December 17, 2004, 13:10]
E-commerce minister roughs it with Jenny Agutter
News E-commerce minister Stephen Timms is set to join film star Jenny Agutter and a host of top IT bosses by sleeping rough in London on Friday night at the fourth Byte Night. This year's Byte Night, an annual event in which the IT industry raises money...
[September 20, 2002, 15:28]
Q&A: E-commerce minister on broadband rollout
News Stephen Timms, MP for East Ham, was appointed e-commerce minister last month. In one of his first interviews since starting his new job, the man at the heart of government policy on issues such as broadband, 3G, digital television and Wi-Fi...
[June 24, 2002, 14:01]
