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ZDNet UK News interviews e-Minister Patricia Hewitt
News In a week when the debate between BT, Oftel, the government and industry over Internet access costs reached boiling point, ZDNet News is about to gain exclusive access to the woman behind the government's Internet policy -- e-Minister Patricia...
[February 18, 2000, 8:50]
Jane Wakefield: Is it 1984, or just Lord of the Flies?
News The e-Minister Patricia Hewitt was at it again this week, full of earnest intentions about government plans for e-commerce but with little substance (should I be surprised? Cheers Patricia. Surrounded by privacy advocates as she pandered to the...
[September 27, 1999, 13:58]
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]
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]
Broadband for all - government pledges
News Speaking at the launch of the report, entitled UK online: the broadband future, e-minister Patricia Hewitt acknowledged the importance of broadband to both consumers and businesses: "Consumers with broadband stay on the Internet up to four times...
[February 13, 2001, 16:19]
PM moves to Internet time - critics sceptical
News The Prime Minister has chosen Patricia Hewitt to lead his e-commerce revolution and she reports directly to him," a spokesman says. Patricia Hewitt is taking too narrow a view. We all agree that we need to think in terms of Internet years not...
[October 25, 1999, 16:12]
Analysis: What Labour should do with the e-minister
News Just as there was little surprise in the prime minister's announcement of a general election in June, so many industry commentators will be equally unsurprised to see e-minister Patricia Hewitt move on to greater things after the election.
[May 10, 2001, 11:15]
Jane Wakefield: Broadband Britain, please stand up
News It is investing millions of pounds of its hard-earned money in broadband, the e-minister Patricia Hewitt is keen on reminding us BT cynics, and for those who don't want to use its services there is supposedly a thriving competitive market in the...
[February 19, 2001, 15:28]
Jane Wakefield: BT caught in the offside trap
News E-Minister Patricia Hewitt has made it clear she is in favour of unmetered access. On Friday, ZDNet News interviewed e-Minister Patricia Hewitt -- who was less than willing to admit BT was holding back UK Net adoption.
[February 21, 2000, 14:37]
EU to look at cost of Internet access
News In a recent interview with ZDNet News, e-Minister Patricia Hewitt says BT "looks with envy at other European operators", and claims that the situation in Germany is worse than in the UK because Deutsche Telekom controls the ISP market as well as...
[February 29, 2000, 10:55]
Douglas Alexander takes on e-minister role
News Alexander replaces Patricia Hewitt, who has been promoted to Trade and Industry secretary. As previously reported on ZDNet, Douglas Alexander, MP for Paisley South, has been named as minister for e-commerce and competitiveness.
[June 12, 2001, 9:32]
New e-minister named
News Alexander replaces Patricia Hewitt, who has been promoted to Trade and Industry secretary. Douglas Alexander, the MP for Paisley South, has been named as minister for e-commerce and competitiveness. It is possible that Alexander's responsibilities...
[June 12, 2001, 8:33]
Wider role for e-commerce minister
News Alexander will have a slightly wider range of duties than his predecessor Patricia Hewitt, who has been promoted to secretary of state for trade and industry. Douglas Alexander is likely to start his new role as the minister for e-commerce and...
[June 19, 2001, 14:07]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog With Patricia Hewitt getting the nod as Trade and Industry Secretary, the much-coveted and influential position of minister for e-commerce is up for grabs. He's got everything the country needs in someone with responsibility for.well, whatever it...
[June 15, 2001, 17:45]
Government urges BT to cut ADSL costs
News The Broadband Stakeholder Group was set up in February this year by the former e-commerce minister Patricia Hewitt and the e-Envoy, Andrew Pinder. Alexander's predecessor, Patricia Hewitt, was criticised by a committee of MPs for the problems of...
[September 26, 2001, 11:52]
News Burst: Cheap Net access top of gov't agenda
News Cheaper Internet access is at the top of the government's e-agenda according to e-Minister Patricia Hewitt. Speaking at the Scrambling for Safety Conference Thursday, the UK's first e-Minister claimed cost of peak hour access had "got to come down".
[September 23, 1999, 15:44]
Pressure mounts on BT over unmetered access
News A day after e-Minister Patricia Hewitt met with members of the Campaign for Unmetered Telecommunications (CUT) and representatives from AOL to discuss Net charges Intel has, tentatively, thrown its weight behind the campaign.
[October 21, 1999, 16:20]
Government attacked over broadband commitments
News MPs sitting on the Department of Media, Culture and Sport select committee have accused the government of failing to take account of citizens' needs, and have challenged e-Minister Patricia Hewitt's assertion that the UK is leading broadband roll...
[March 16, 2001, 12:13]
Government defends new cyber-snooping powers
News On the day the government published its long-awaited E-communications Bill (formerly the E-Commerce Bill), Home Office minister Charles Clarke and e-Minister Patricia Hewitt stoutly defended the decision to push through controversial law...
[November 19, 1999, 16:22]
UK's first e-envoy appointed
News Allen, who previously worked as Tony Blair's principle private secretary, will have a hotline direct to the Prime Minister and will work closely with new e-Minister Patricia Hewitt. The UK's first e-envoy, former civil servant and High Commissioner...
[September 13, 1999, 15:32]
