UK tech minister Chris Philp has unveiled the government’s new UK Digital Strategy at London Tech Week.

According to the government, the launch comes as new data shows the UK has overtaken China for investment in tech start-ups.

The strategy is designed to bring together cross-government tech and digital policies into what the government describes as “one unified roadmap” for making sure digital tech drives economic growth in the UK.

It includes bringing tech leaders together in a new Digital Skills Council to tackle the skills gap and review the UK’s large-scale computer processing capabilities, needed to power technologies like AI.

“In the last five years the UK has raced ahead of Europe to become a global tech leader and now we’re setting the course for the future,” said digital minister Chris Philp at a London Tech Week panel. “The Digital Strategy is the roadmap we will follow to strengthen our global position as a science and technology superpower.”

Figures released today reveal that more than £12 billion in venture capital funding has been secured by UK tech start-ups and scaleups so far this year, which is more than the whole of 2020.

This puts the UK just behind the US and ahead of China on funding secured by tech start-up firms in the year to date .

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