Political Monitor 22/05/2015

General Election 2015   Full Ministerial responsibilities published Following the comprehensive summary of the Government reshuffle which took place last week, further responsibilities for Ministers have been announced. Please find below a list of Ministerial...

Political Monitor 15/05/2015

General Election 2015   Ministerial reshuffle completed Following last week’s General Election, at which the Conservative Party won an overall majority of twelve, the Prime Minister carried out a ministerial reshuffle.   Of key relevance to ISPA members is the...

Political Monitor 01/05/2015

Manifestos   The Scottish National Party (SNP) and the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) have published their manifestos ahead of the General Election on 7th May. Both parties may influence the make-up of the next Government in the event of a hung parliament....

Political Monitor 17/04/2015

Manifestos   This week has seen most of the major political parties launch their manifestos ahead of the General Election on May 7th. The key manifesto commitments of relevance to ISPA members are detailed below. Labour On Monday, the Labour Party launched its...

Political Monitor 10/04/2015

Ofcom   Research shows that 4G significantly outperforms 3G networks Ofcom published research showing that, in the five sample towns and cities tested, (Edinburgh, Leeds, London, Newcastle and Poole/Bournemouth) 4G networks performed much better than 3G networks....

Political Monitor 27/03/2015

Broadband   DCMS announces that 14,000 small businesses have received Connection Vouchers This week the Government published figures revealing that 14,000 businesses had received Connection Vouchers (broadband grants of up to £3,000) to date as part of the...