Autumn Statement wish list and why UK tech thrives whoever wins the election – Startup Coalition’s Dom Hallas

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🗓️ 21 November 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Dom Hallas, executive director of the Startup Coalition, reveals his top policy wishes for UK tech in the upcoming Autumn Statement and shares his assessment of the tech legislation agenda for 2024, including the Automated Vehicles Bill. Elsewhere in this episode, Hallas explains why he thinks the UK’s AI Safety Summit was a success, why he’s optimistic about either a Labour or Conservative government and what regions need to do to build a strong tech ecosystem.

Hallas leads the Startup Coalition, a lobby group that was formerly known as Coadec that acts as a conduit between Westminster and the UK’s startup ecosystem. Hallas, a former civil servant in the Brexit department, has been executive director of the Startup Coalition since 2018. He is also a member of the Digital Economy Council, a government advisory committee, and a member of Seedcamp’s advisory council. Hallas was a key figure in lobbying the government to save Silicon Valley Bank UK earlier this year, which resulted in HSBC acquiring the specialist lender in an eleventh-hour deal.

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0:00.0	Rishi Sunak is often called a kind of a tech bro in a sort of critical way, but actually
0:10.6	from the perspective of the startup community, that's often a good thing because it means
0:14.3	he cares about this stuff and wants to try and get the best deal for us.
0:20.3	As startups, you're taught to kind of build these minimum viable products and then scale
0:24.0	quickly and the process of kind of that product journey looks quite different to what it
0:28.3	would look like in government and rightfully so.
0:33.7	Administration by HMRC is just not very good, bluntly.
0:36.0	It's not being administered very well.
0:41.1	And so, kind of how do we make sure that the system is working properly as well as sort of it's not just about the policy being right. It's also about the sort of delivery being right.
0:50.2	From the first time founders to the funds that back them, innovation needs different.
0:55.7	Our episode partner, HSBC Innovation Banking, is proud to accelerate growth for tech and life science businesses,
1:03.1	creating meaningful connections and opening up a world of opportunity for entrepreneurs and investors alike.
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1:20.5	Hello and welcome to the UKTN podcast, a weekly chat with the movers and shakers of the UK tech industry and the destination for all things UK tech related.
1:34.5	And this week I'm joined by Dom Hallis, the chief executive of the Startup Coalition, a pressure group giving voice to Britain's start-ups and scale-ups. Welcome, Dom. Thanks. Thanks for having me.
1:45.6	Now, let's start by explaining the genesis of the Startup Coalition. You had a different name
1:50.4	to start with. So tell us a bit about how you came about and then, you know, what your aims are,
1:54.9	what you're trying to achieve. Yeah, sure. So we were founded in 2010 as Kodak, or the Coalition for a Digital Economy,
2:02.0	for sort of give us the full name, originally founded by our current chair, a guy called Jeff Lynn,
2:06.4	who founded Cedars, the Equity Crowdfunding Platform, and Mike Butcher, who was a tech journalist himself and works at TechCrunch,
2:12.8	with a kind of view to addressing at the time a specific problem in the ecosystem when it came to policy,
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