Competition to find new ‘home of the railways’ launched Transport Secretary Grant Shapps says the new central headquarters of Great British Railways must be "well connected" and outside of London Wales Online · Feb 5, 2022
Grant Shapps tests positive for coronavirus The Transport Secretary is the second Cabinet minister to do so in five days. The Independent UK · Feb 4, 2022
Grant Shapps second Cabinet minister to test positive for Covid Foreign Secretary Liz Truss announced she was isolating on Monday Wales Online · Feb 4, 2022
Grant Shapps promises train passengers ‘big improvements’ in timetables Hundreds of daily services were axed in December and January due to staff shortages caused by the Omicron coronavirus variant. The Independent UK · Feb 4, 2022
Turkey reports daily record of 111,157 new cases – as it happened Turkish daily death toll highest in four months as cases surge; UK health agency says number of cases each day could be rising The Guardian - AU · Feb 4, 2022
Labour: Shapps ‘sold bus transformation, but is delivering managed decline’ Grant Shapps described the full amount of money being spent on buses as a ‘record never achieved before by any Government as far as I can see’. The Independent UK · Feb 3, 2022
Ex-transport ministers call on Grant Shapps to act on vehicle safety New vehicle safety standards become mandatory in the European Union and Northern Ireland from July but will not automatically be used in Britain. The Independent UK · Feb 2, 2022
More passengers to be eligible for flight delay compensation under new post-Brexit plans Travellers on flights more than one hour late will receive payouts under the proposed changes Nottingham Post · Feb 1, 2022
Travel: Passengers to receive compensation for one-hour flight delays Travellers will receive compensation for flights delayed by more than an hour under new plans unveiled by Transport Secretary Grant Shapps. Evening Standard · Jan 31, 2022
Flight compensation overhaul for domestic airline passengers ‘We’re making the most of our Brexit dividend,’ transport secretary Grant Shapps says The Independent UK · Jan 31, 2022
Transport Secretary claims climate protest action ‘doesn’t make sense’ Grant Shapps says many environmental protesters are ‘anarchists’ who ‘just want to find a basis upon which to take extremist action’. The Independent UK · Jan 28, 2022
'Playing with people's lives' - Northern transport body's 120 staff face uncertain future as Government 'winds down' funding Transport for the North employs staff in Manchester and Leeds but the body's funding for the next three years is yet to be confirmed Manchester Evening News · Jan 26, 2022
‘Scrap passenger locator form’: Gatwick demands end to Covid travel form ‘It is there for a critical reason’ – transport secretary Grant Shapps The Independent UK · Jan 26, 2022
Solid or tepid? The Tory ministers still defending Boris Johnson A core group of cabinet ministers are continuing to back PM – some more vehemently than others The Guardian - UK · Jan 25, 2022
The Independent UK · Jan 25, 2022 Grant Shapps promises to ‘set Britons free’ with easing of travel rules ‘Covid restrictions on travel should last not a minute longer than is necessary,’ says transport secretary
Daily Mirror · Jan 25, 2022 GMB's Susanna Reid grills Grant Shapps on following Covid rules when 'PM doesn't' Good Morning Britain's Susanna Reid to ask the Transport Secretary why the British public should follow the guidance after new allegations surfaced that officials gathered for Boris Johnson's birthday bash in June 2020
Wales Online · Jan 25, 2022 Met Police now investigating Downing Street parties No 10 has conceded staff “gathered briefly” in the Cabinet Room on the afternoon of June 19 2020
The Guardian - UK · Jan 25, 2022 Downing Street parties: Sue Gray report could come this week as police signal no objection – as it happened Latest updates: prime minister welcomes Met police investigation into allegations of lockdown rule-breaking
The Independent UK · Jan 25, 2022 Grant Shapps: We’re bringing travel ‘back to the good old days’ The requirement for fully vaccinated arrivals to take a coronavirus test will be dropped from February 11.
Manchester Evening News · Jan 25, 2022 Grant Shapps says interior designer Lulu Lytle was NOT invited to PM's 'birthday party' and only 'happened to come by' the gathering The Prime Minister was reportedly treated to a birthday bash at Number 10 in June 2020 while the majority of the country remained under Covid restrictions
The Independent UK · Jan 25, 2022 Surprise birthday celebration for PM ‘almost certainly very unwise’ – Shapps Grant Shapps said staff would have thought they were being ‘kind’ by presenting Boris Johnson with a birthday cake.
Daily Mirror · Jan 25, 2022 Grant Shapps defends Boris Johnson's lockdown birthday gathering as 'not a party' Tory Grant Shapps put forward some excuses for Boris Johnson who is embroiled in yet another row over pandemic parties
The Guardian - UK · Jan 25, 2022 Cake and singing on PM’s birthday was not a party, says Grant Shapps Transport secretary says Sue Gray will be using incident in her report, and ‘we’ll wait to see what she says’
Evening Standard · Jan 25, 2022 Covid booster vaccine ‘almost certainly’ needed to go on holiday this summer, says Grant Shapps ‘If you want to travel, say go to Spain on holiday this summer, they are almost certainly going to require that booster jab ‘
Wales Online · Jan 25, 2022 Grant Shapps says there are 'better things' to focus on than No 10 parties Mr Shapps suggested the public would not consider the Prime Minister’s birthday gathering as a party