Grant Shapps
Summary
Grant V Shapps MP (born 14 September 1968, Watford) is the Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Welwyn Hatfield in the United Kingdom and Minister of State for Housing and Planning. He first won the seat in the general election on 5 May 2005 and was returned to parliament in the May 2010 election with a 17,423 majority.He was appointed as a Privy Counsellor on 9 June 2010.Shapps was born in Watford in Hertfordshire and educated at Watford Grammar School for Boys followed by Cassio College where he completed a Business & Finance course at Manchester Polytechnic (now Manchester Metropolitan University), where he received a Higher National Diploma.
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Grant Shapps to be investigated by advertising watchdog
Tory party chairman accused of misleading use of alter egos to promote his internet marketing firm.
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Grant Shapps founded company selling software that breaches Google code
TrafficPaymaster, sold by housing minister's wife's firm, generates revenue for sites using search engine's AdSense.
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Out-of-town retailers and betting brands escape Portas clampdown
Out-of-town retailers and betting brands have avoided a clampdown by the Government after it decided not to impose stricter regulations proposed in a review by retail expert Mary Portas.
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Pickles fools publishers - he cannot enforce code on council-run papers
Eric Pickles, minister for communities and local government, and his sidekick, Grant Shapps, have been pulling the wool over the eyes of newspaper publishers.
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Residents should shop council papers competing with local press to district auditor says minister
Local government minister Grant Shapps has urged residents to report council publications which continue to breach the Publicity Code, by competing with the local press, to the district auditor.
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David Cameron under fire over Andy Coulson's visit to Chequers
PM showed 'extraordinary lack of judgement' by hosting Coulson two months after he resigned as Downing Street press chief.
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Government Defends Crackdown on Local Council Publications After Select Committee Report Calls for Delay
Local Government Minister Grant Shapps has issued a spirited defence of Government proposals to crack down on council publications after the Communities and Local Government Select Committee published a report calling for a delay to the plans.
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Select committee says 'little evidence' council publications compete unfairly with local press
A select committee has called for plans for a tough new code which would restrict the publication of council newspapers to be delayed, claiming there is little evidence they are unfair competition to the local press. The report by the Communities and Local Government Select Committee on the proposed code of practice on local authority publicity, published today, calls for an independent inquiry on competition in the local media market.
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David Mitchell to rival Paxman and grill politicians on new show
Watch out, Humphrys and Paxo. David Mitchell has announced his arrival in the pantheon of political inquisitors with a swipe at the "rottweiler" school of interviewing. Every Thursday evening from this week, the Peep Show star will grill a leading politician live in front of a studio audience during 10 O'Clock Live, a new Channel 4 topical comedy show.
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NS Gives Evidence to Communities Select Committee on Council Newspapers
The NS gave evidence this week to a Parliamentary select committee inquiry into Government proposals to curb council newspapers, BBC Radio 4 reported. Simon Edgley of Trinity Mirror Southern and Lynne Anderson of the NS represented the local media industry, while councils were represented by the LGA, London Councils and NALC.
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