techUK Response to the DRCF's call for input on their 2024/5 workplan
techUK has responded to the Digital Regulation Cooperation Forum's call for input on their workplan for 2024-2025.
The Digital Regulation Cooperation Forum (DRCF) brings together the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) and Ofcom to facilitate collaboration on digital regulation.
techUK and its members continue to be supportive of the DRCF model, seeing this as an effective way of achieving regulatory coordination and coherence across the UK’s major regulators who focus on digital services. Feedback fell into several key fields of work: Digital ID, AI, international regulatory issues and stakeholder engagement. In each, techUK outlined how the DRCF can work to ensure regulation supports innovation and a good business environment, while flexibly including emerging technologies.
In preparing our response to the DRCF’s call for input, techUK hosted a roundtable between the DRCF and techUK’s membership. techUK welcomes direct engagement of this kind by the DRCF and the comments made at the roundtable were incorporated into the submission. This response is further informed by techUK’s own engagement with the DRCF as well as feedback from members over the last year.
You can find techUK's full response here
Neil Ross
Neil Ross
As Associate Director for Policy Neil leads on techUK's public policy work in the UK. In this role he regularly engages with UK and Devolved Government Ministers, senior civil servants and members of the UK’s Parliaments aiming to make the UK the best place to start, scale and develop a tech business.
Neil joined techUK in 2019 to lead on techUK’s input into the UK-EU Brexit trade deal negotiations and economic policy. Alongside his role leading techUK's public policy work Neil also acts as a spokesperson for techUK often appearing in the media and providing evidence to a range of Parliamentary committees.
In 2023 Neil was listed by the Politico newspaper as one of the '20 people who matter in UK tech' and has regularly been cited as a key industry figure shaping UK tech policy.
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Archie Breare
Archie Breare
Archie Breare joined techUK in September 2022 as the Telecoms Programme intern, and moved into the Policy and Public Affairs team as the Team Assistant in February 2023 and as Public Affairs Manager in September 2023
Before starting at techUK, Archie was a student at the University of Cambridge, completing an undergraduate degree in History and a master's degree in Modern British History.
In his spare time, he likes to read, discuss current affairs, and to try and persuade himself to cycle more.
