Global Tech & Trade Policy Update
Welcome to this week’s update on the fast-moving world of global trade, digital policy, and transatlantic relations. Here’s what’s shaping the global agenda right now.
Autumn Budget 2025 – energy, transport & sustainability
Read our energy, transport and sustainability summary of the Autumn Budget
techUK COP30 roundup: tech and digital come to the forefront of the climate agenda
A momentous yet controversial COP30 in Belém, Brazil, fundamentally aimed to highlight the need to talk less and do more.
techUK recommendations adopted by House of Lords Home Working Committee
Last week, the House of Lords Committee on Home Working published Is Working from Home Working? And we are delighted that techUK’s main arguments have been accepted by the report, and that techUK has been quoted extensively throughout.
Queer AI: Key Developments and Changes Since March 2025
In March, as part of the Tech Together campaign, techUK convened a panel of researchers and AI technologists to explore how Artificial Intelligence systems shape the experiences of queer people.
Where technology solutions can help address challenges in CQC State of the Sector report
The Care Quality Commission’s State of Health Care and Adult Social Care in England 2024/25 report paints a familiar but urgent picture of a sector under immense strain. Rising demand, financial pressures, and workforce shortages continue to define the adult social care landscape, but this year’s report also highlights growing optimism about the role of technology in transforming the system.
techUK's analysis of Ofcom’s Connected Nations 2025 with continued momentum in digital infrastructure rollout
Read our insight on Ofcom's Connected Nations 2025 report.
EU simplification agenda: Commission proposes Digital Omnibus
On 19 November the EU Commission proposed its “Digital Omnibus”.
