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Fair Wi-fi: Hotels must mend their ways
News Grant Shapps MP, vice chairman of the Conservative Party, told silicon.com it is worrying that the UK is the most notable offender with these rip-off charges, adding it could damage UK business. Shapps said: "To keep the UK competitive it's vital... [31 Jan 2007]
silicon.com launches 'Fair Wi-fi' campaign
News Grant Shapps, Conservative Party MP, said: "The cost of a high-speed internet connection is one of the factors that helps business people decide where to do business and hotels that still charge big numbers for short periods of time online are... [30 Jan 2007]
Web-phobic councils need to wake up
News Conservative MP Grant Shapps holds different views to his technophobic counterparts in Westminster and says he has regular email contact with more than 10 per cent of his constituents on a weekly basis. [22 Sep 2006]
UK held back by IT-illiterate MPs
News Self-confessed techie and Tory MP for Welwyn Hatfield, Grant Shapps, told silicon.com that if MPs fail to understand the benefits technology can deliver the result could be flawed legislation that badly impacts UK citizens or businesses. [12 May 2006]
Leader: ID cards fight must go on
Leader While shadow Home Secretary David Davis decided to side with the Home Secretary on this one, some of the more tech-savvy Conservative MPs, such as Grant Shapps, maintained their opposition to the end. [31 Mar 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 24.03.06
Round-Up Grant Shapps says there are few strong voices to push for modernisation in the House of Commons. Tory MP Grant Shapps told us: "The IT here really sucks. However, the Round-Up can't help thinking the fact these groups have apparently been moaning... [24 Mar 2006]
Houses of Parliament IT "really sucks"
News Conservative MP Grant Shapps said, in part, the problem is due to restrictive levels of red tape and policy but also because too few MPs demand anything more than the most basic levels of connectivity. [20 Mar 2006]
Will's Web Watch: What's the story dawning e-Tory?
Comment Leading the way in the e-Tory revolution is Grant Shapps, MP for the constituency of Welwyn Hatfield, Hertfordshire - which sounds about as far from associations with high-tech innovation as you can get, bar the fact it's not a million miles from... [24 Feb 2006]
MP slams "out of control" DNA database
News An "out of control stealth database" storing thousands of innocent people's DNA is being created because of a lack of guidelines and controls over how police collect DNA, according to a campaign group led by Conservative MP Grant Shapps. [20 Feb 2006]
Tory MP says online petitions must count
News Grant Shapps, Conservative MP for Welwyn Hatfield, has today tabled an Early Day Motion urging parliament to accept petitions in electronic format. Currently campaigners must present a written and signed petition in paper form but, according to... [14 Feb 2006]
