Digital Technology: National Security

(asked on 24th June 2025) - View Source

Question to the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology:

To ask His Majesty's Government what priority they will give to the development of sovereign digital capabilities, excluding artificial intelligence, under their new industrial strategy.


Answered by
Lord Vallance of Balham Portrait
Lord Vallance of Balham
Minister of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)
This question was answered on 8th July 2025

The Government’s Modern Industrial Strategy commits to supporting the digital and technologies sector as a high growth industry. As part of the Digital and Technologies Sector Plan we have prioritised six frontier technologies with the greatest growth potential and strategic importance. The Sector Plan commits to grow domestic capabilities in these technologies, including through programmes to boost our semiconductor chip design capability, targeted R&D investment in advanced connectivity technologies and a ten-year funding commitment for the National Quantum Computing Centre. We will develop a domestic skills base in these technologies through a new £187 million TechFirst programme to grow the UK’s digital talent pipeline.

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