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Stephen Timms is new e-commerce minister
News Douglas Alexander, who was appointed as e-commerce minister last year, was moved to the Cabinet Office on Wednesday and replaced by Stephen Timms MP, formerly the schools minister. The Department of Trade and Industry has confirmed to ZDNet UK that...
[May 29, 2002, 15:12]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Stephen Timms MP hails from East Ham, a place I know well and, in another life, somewhere I stood as a local council candidate (came last, since you ask, and a good thing too). As e-commerce minister seems to be a place to park bright young things...
[May 31, 2002, 11:19]
Slow Broadband Dampens Business Edge
Blog On September 18th, 2007, the Rt Hon Stephen Timms MP (the then Minister of State for Competitiveness), said: ‘Before too long, the wider economy is going to need high speed broadband. From Timms’ crowd-rousing speech to now there has been little...
[September 26, 2008, 14:03]
Patent directive adoption just days away
Talkback WRITE to your local MP as soon as possible with your concerns about software patents, and ask your MP to bring them to the attention of Stephen Timms MP, the minister for e-commerce at the DTI. BY ASKING your local MP to forward your concerns, you...
[January 25, 2005, 10:20]
Government backs anti-spam mission to US
News E-commerce minister Stephen Timms is giving his support to a delegation of UK politicians who are travelling to America next month to lobby for stricter spam controls. Well, no we didn't; we thought e-commerce minister Stephen Timms had some grasp...
[September 19, 2003, 14:50]
Gov't confusion over national 2Mbps commitment
Blog However, communications minister Stephen Timms - Lord Carter's successor - then arrived to address all the delegates at the conference. Later in the conference, Derek Wyatt MP - the head of the All-Party Communications Group (apComm) - praised...
[October 15, 2009, 16:07]
Timms confirmed as Digital Britain minister
News The prime minister's office has confirmed that Stephen Timms will add work on extending the use of digital technologies to his portfolio. Timms will remain as financial secretary to the Treasury, but will also become a parliamentary under-secretary...
[August 10, 2009, 12:44]
MPs urge more action on wireless broadband
News Several other MPs backed this point, and two urged e-commerce minister Stephen Timms to make the 2GHz band available to telcos. Timms did not address this point in his response to the comments raised in the debate, though.
[March 26, 2003, 8:05]
Broadband critics hit out at Communications Bill
News Wrapping up the debate, e-commerce minister Stephen Timms said he was confident that the government's market-led approach to broadband would be successful, citing the mobile phone sector as evidence. The competition between the service providers...
[December 4, 2002, 16:52]
Timms handed IT role
News As the new minister of state for e-commerce, communications and information industries, Stephen Timms MP, the former chief secretary to the Treasury, will lead on IT industry issues as part of his wider role as minister of state for competitiveness.
[July 12, 2007, 12:20]
Europe crowned as Internet Villain
News On a happier note, the Internet Hero award went to Stephen Timms MP, for "for his effective work as e-commerce Minister, which will be missed by the Internet industry". Timms served as e-commerce minister between May 2002 and September 2004, during...
[February 25, 2005, 15:25]
Government faces grilling over rural broadband
News E-commerce minister Stephen Timms will also be taking part in the debate, which will be streamed live on the Internet. This issue will also be raised at Tuesday's debate -- where Stephen Timms will be urged to disclose more information about how...
[March 25, 2003, 12:09]
Government: Our spam laws won't be enough
News According to e-commerce minister Stephen Timms, who is overseeing the bill's introduction, it won't be enough. Timms told the Spam Summit at the House of Commons on Tuesday that a global approach was needed to combat the growing menace of spam.
[July 1, 2003, 15:34]
Government 'getting closer' to key broadband goal
News Britain's days of lagging behind in the broadband stakes are over, according to e-commerce minister Stephen Timms. Speaking in parliament last week, Timms said he is confident that new figures will soon show that the UK is finally outperforming...
[May 7, 2003, 13:48]
News Schmooze: Linux unites, partly
News While Douglas Alexander didn't seem to know much about computers, however, Stephen Timms MP is a former Ovum analyst. Stephen Timms is new e-commerce minister That, at least, is the theory behind UnitedLinux.
[May 31, 2002, 12:37]
Public sector workers 'should get subsidised broadband'
News Broadband is awfully short of champions within government," said Ian Taylor MP, warning that e-commerce minister Stephen Timms would struggle to persuade other departments of the merits of a scheme such as subsidised broadband for some public...
[June 24, 2003, 12:31]
MPs to hold spam summit
News E-commerce minister Stephen Timms will open the summit, and Wyatt hopes that US and European politicians with responsibility for Internet issues will also attend. Derek Wyatt MP, a long-time campaigner for tougher action against spam, especially...
[May 21, 2003, 11:51]
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]
MP slams 'confusion' of UK broadband strategy
News According to Sir George, the government must be clearer about the details of its broadband strategy, and he has urged Stephen Timms MP, minister for e-commerce and competitiveness, to disclose more information.
[January 13, 2003, 16:30]
Spam inquiry to focus on international laws
News As first reported at ZDNet UK, the inquiry will follow a Spam Summit to be opened by e-commerce minister Stephen Timms and hosted by Derek Wyatt MP. An inquiry into spam, to be held by a cross-party group of MPs next month, is to look at how...
[June 16, 2003, 11:20]
