With 50 days to go to the General Election<\/a>, the UK\u2019s Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne<\/a> today delivered his sixth, and possibly last, Budget<\/a> as well as unleashing a host of key government reports, responses and strategies. Whether you believe \u201cBritain is walking tall again\u201d depends on which side of the house you sit on, but at Delany & Co we are much more interested in what the Budget means for the innovative technology space. From that perspective it\u2019s a bumper budget, with the government announcing a host of measures intended to make the UK a world leading hub for tech companies and placing technology at the heart of many of the solutions for the UK\u2019s economic and social challenges.<\/p>\n From our initial analysis there are seven key technology announcements:<\/p>\n Last but not least, is the promise that \u201cthe government will…engage with business to determine where regulations inhibit innovation, including disruptive technologies, and develop a programme for addressing this in the next Parliament.\u201d This is great news from our point of view, and really sums up a government that seems determined to focus on the positive potential of technology and find ways around the risks and barriers instead of being deterred by them. Of course the UK General Election is now a matter of weeks away, so whether Osborne and his colleagues will be in government to deliver on these promises remains to be seen.<\/p>\n Chancellor George Osborne\u2019s speech can be seen in full here<\/a>. \u00a0The March 2015 March Budget is available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n By Victoria Read and Samir Nanji<\/p>\n Photo Credit: Alamy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" With 50 days to go to the General Election, the UK\u2019s Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne today delivered his sixth, and possibly last, Budget as well as unleashing a host of key government reports, responses and strategies. Whether you believe \u201cBritain is walking tall again\u201d depends on which side of the house you sit […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,28,22,29,30,31,20,32],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n