Recommendation 11

As geopolitics shifts, the UK is in a global race for sovereign capability across a range of technologies, whether it acknowledges it or not. Achieving sovereign capability requires the government to be clear about the trade-offs and risks involved and realistic about what is achievable. Setting an ambition for what the government considers sovereign capability, in what it considers to be key sectors, is a necessary precursor for a joined-up strategy to develop key technologies. Limiting transparency around the UK’s ambitions for sovereign capabilities is unlikely to be hiding anything from competitors such as Russia and China, but it is leaving UK tech companies in the dark. (Conclusion, Paragraph 60)