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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]
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]
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]
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]
Mike O'Brien becomes NHS IT minister
News Mike O'Brien, MP for Warwickshire North, has been appointed as minister of state for health services, where his brief includes Connecting for Health and NHS IT. O'Brien was previously minister of state at the Deparment of Energy and Climate Change.
[June 10, 2009, 9:01]
A Year Ago: E-minister rushes to defend BT and Oftel
News At 8am Friday morning, ZDNet's Jane Wakefield boarded a train to Leicester with the e-Minister Patricia Hewitt to discuss BT, the local loop and those comments made by Gordon Brown. BT is not a monopoly, Oftel is doing a good job and people who...
[February 18, 2001, 6:03]
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]
Justice minister urges overhaul of gov't data handling
News Justice minister Michael Wills has called for a root-and-branch change in how the government handles citizen data. The minister spoke of the need for 'data minimisation' — that is, only holding as much data as is necessary to provide a service...
[June 25, 2008, 18:03]
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]
New NPfIT minister announced
News Ben Bradshaw MP's new role as minister of state for health services was announced by the Department of Health (DoH) on Friday. He was previously minister for local environment, marine and animal welfare at the Department for Environment, Food and...
[July 23, 2007, 12:04]
Prime minister gets email - but don't expect a reply
News For the first time, it is possible to send the British prime minister a message over the Internet. The 10 Downing Street Web site on Thursday published a Web form that allows members of the public to contact the Prime Minister.
[August 21, 2003, 13:00]
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]
ID cards: Data-protection minister calls for review
News Plans for a national ID database must be reviewed following the data blunder by Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs, according to the government's own data-protection minister. Speaking at a joint House of Commons and House of Lords select committee on...
[November 28, 2007, 8:07]
Wanted: UK minister for disasters
News The UK Government should appoint a minister with responsibility for managing business and IT disasters across the private and public sector, according to the Business Continuity Institute. Speaking at the group's annual conference, the Business...
[March 17, 2005, 15:00]
e-Minister rushes to defend BT and Oftel
News At 8am Friday morning, ZDNet's Jane Wakefield boarded a train to Leicester with the e-Minister Patricia Hewitt to discuss BT, the local loop and those comments made by Gordon Brown. BT is not a monopoly, Oftel is doing a good job and people who...
[February 18, 2000, 16:44]
E-minister backs unmetered access
News E-minister Patricia Hewitt joined the unmetered access bandwagon Thursday. Speaking at the UK Internet summit in London, Hewitt confidently declared the government "has got its act together" on Internet policy.
[November 1, 1999, 11:26]
Malaysian minister slams software and music industries
News The Government has to take this drastic measure, at least for the next year or two, to monitor the situation," Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin told The Star, a Malaysian daily.
[July 7, 2003, 9:04]
E-minister sees lower broadband prices ahead
News UK consumers and businesses could soon be paying less for a high-speed Internet connection, according to e-minister Patricia Hewitt. Speaking on Monday, Hewitt -- who is also secretary of state for trade and industry -- hailed the progress made in...
[December 15, 2003, 16:35]
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]
