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Presented by Aleks Krotoski and produced by Scott Cawley

Tech Weekly: Election special – technology policy debate

The UK is heading to the polling booths to vote for its new Parliament on 6 May. This year, the main parties have made Britain's digital future a central issue in their election promises, releasing technology manifestos and making speeches about how they will promote the country's thriving technology industry.

We want to know just what each party plans for the digital economy, how they'll curb piracy and filesharing, where they stand on intellectual property copyright reforms, how they'll fund rural broadband penetration, and what they intend to do with the library of government data.

Joining us for this week's programme are Stephen Timms, Labour MP for East Ham, financial secretary to the Treasury, and minister for Digital Britain; Jeremy Hunt, Conservative MP for South West Surrey
and shadow secretary of state for culture, media and sport, and Lord
Razzall, the Liberal Democrat's spokesperson for business, enterprise
and regulatory reform.

Also in the studio are our Tech Weekly regulars – presenter Aleks Krotoski, Guardian Technology editor Charles Arthur and New Media correspondent Jemima Kiss.

It's a packed hour of discussion. In addition to our own interests, we've lobbied our listeners for their questions for this debate via Twitter and the Guardian's blogs. Listen and learn more about what's behind the technology election promises, and what will happen in Digital Britain over the next five years.

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