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UK pay-as-you-drive fuelled by local plan
News Speaking in the House of Commons, Secretary of State for Transport, Douglas Alexander, said the "demonstrations [will] help us understand how time, distance and place road-pricing could function so that... [23 May 2007]
Zopa eyes US after cash boost
News The company has also appointed Douglas Dolton as its new global CEO. James Alexander, UK CEO of Zopa, admitted to silicon.com: "No one's heard of Zopa. Alexander said: "We want to give... [20 Mar 2007]
Road-charging protest crashes PM's website
News But Transport Secretary Douglas Alexander has accused the people behind the protest of spreading myths about the plans. The Downing Street website crashed this week under the strain of anti-road-charging... [13 Feb 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 26.01.07
Round-Up It seems Transport Secretary Douglas Alexander, in common with everybody else with the gift of sight, has realised the UK's mobile phone legislation is not working. Alexander added:... [26 Jan 2007]
Tougher penalties for drivers on their mobiles
News Transport secretary Douglas Alexander said: "Research shows that talking on a mobile phone while driving affects your concentration and ability to react to dangerous situations.... [22 Jan 2007]
Pay-as-you-drive 'black box' cars proposed
News Transport secretary Douglas Alexander revealed details of a new road transport bill proposals in a letter to other cabinet ministers, according to a report in The Sunday Times. Alexander... [07 Aug 2006]
Satellite-tracking road-use charging gets green light
News New Transport Secretary of State Douglas Alexander this week reaffirmed the government's plan to introduce a road charging scheme that uses technologies such as satellite tracking to enforce... [11 May 2006]
Budget boost for Home Computing scheme
News Back in October, cabinet office minister Douglas Alexander admitted that take-up of HCI had been limited, and launched a consultation exercise into ways of improving the situation. The chancellor, Gordon... [17 Mar 2004]
UK to appoint 'CIO' for government
News The plan to appoint a head of e-government was announced on Monday by Douglas Alexander, minister for the Cabinet Office. Alexander said that the move marked an "evolution in the e-Envoy... [15 Dec 2003]
ITNet wins £83m Cabinet Office deal
News Douglas Alexander, minister for e-transformation at the Cabinet Office, said in a statement: "The Government has a target to get all services online by 2005, achieving high levels of use in key services. [28 Jul 2003]
Re:Viewing 2002 - A year in broadband (Part 2)
News Ecommerce minister Douglas Alexander spoiled the party a little by insisting on referring again to the "building of 'Broadband Britain'" - a misnomer which the government wasn't yet ready to surrender. [19 Dec 2002]
Re:Viewing 2002 - A year in broadband
News Ecommerce minister Douglas Alexander provided good news for the broadband have-nots in rural areas of Britain with word that the government was formally looking into ways of aggregating public sector... [18 Dec 2002]
E-minister bangs British drum in India - again
News Douglas Alexander, who Timms replaced as E-minister, attended the show last year and said more Indian software companies should open offices in the UK in order to access the European market. Britain will... [28 Oct 2002]
"Ditch Microsoft," urge top politicos
News Former e-minister Douglas Alexander, publicly welcomed the open source proposals outlined in an IPPR report earlier this year, but the government has not yet made any firm commitment to Linux. US Green... [05 Jun 2002]
Ecommerce minister replaced in Blair's reshuffle
News Stephen Timms, the former education minister, has replaced Douglas Alexander as the UK's ecommerce minister. Douglas Alexander has been appointed minister of state at... [30 May 2002]
