budget
Focus on AI leaves some sector asking "what about us?"
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Government
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Nov 25, 2025
New tech funding dries up as legacy systems maintenance guzzles police IT budget.
"A promise not to cut R&D tax relief is encouraging, yet let's not underestimate the challenges ahead."
IT contractors had bitterly contested the controversial tax rules.
Today's Autumn budget has drawn a distinctly mixed reaction from across the business and technology worlds -- as organisations digest a flurry of new initiatives including the pledge to boost public R&D to $20 billion, quadruple places on "skills bootcamps" (free courses of up