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slash EM-GB. Hello and welcome to the UKTM podcast, a weekly chat with the movers and shakers

of the UK tech industry and the destination for all things

UK tech related. I'm your host, Jane Wakefield, and today I am delighted to say I am joined by

Peter Kyle, the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology. Welcome. Thanks. It's great

to be with you, Jane. I've got a lot to get through in this half hour, so I'm going to crack on.

And I want to start with something that will be of interest to a lot of the listeners, because

this podcast is kind of aimed at people that are working in the tech startup sector.

And there's three things I often hear in terms of gripes from them.

And I'm going to put those to you.

But first of all, I just want to run some figures past you.

These were recent figures that suggested that the UK tech is worth $1.2 trillion, which is a large amount of money.

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