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Secure Innovation Security Reviews

Secure Innovation Security Reviews is a support programme that part-funds a security review of up to £2,500 for small and medium-sized UK technology businesses in sensitive sectors of the economy. Open, closes 31 January 2027.

Run by Innovate UK · funded by Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, NPSA (National Protective Security Authority), National Cyber Security Centre

Checked against the official page (smartsurvey.co.uk) on 27 Oct 2026.

A part-funded security review that helps early-stage UK technology businesses identify and manage key security risks, including those linked to state threats. Participating businesses also receive a £300 Cyber Essentials voucher after the report is submitted.

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Status and deadline

Status

Open

Confirmed on the official page

Deadline

Closes 31 January 2027

As stated: Opens: 23/10/2026 Closes: 31/01/2027 12:00am

Confirmed on the official page

How much

Up to £2,500

You put in: £500 (including VAT) contributed by the business towards each review

Confirmed on the official page

Who can apply

UK registered and trading businesses that are small or medium sized enterprises (under 250 people), working in one of the sensitive areas of the economy set out in the National Security and Investment Act or the IS-8 qualifying sectors or frontier industries, and able to contribute £500 towards the Security Review.

Confirmed on the official page

Business size

Micro (under 10 staff), Small (10 to 49 staff), Medium (50 to 249 staff)

Confirmed on the official page

Sectors

energy, manufacturing, quantum, robotics & ai, security & defence, space

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How to apply

Complete the application form at the Apply link (SmartSurvey, SISR2026).

Not confirmed on the official page

Where it is open: UK-wide

United Kingdom

Not confirmed on the official page

HartlepoolMiddlesbroughRedcar and ClevelandStockton-on-TeesDarlingtonHaltonWarringtonBlackburn with DarwenBlackpoolKingston upon Hull, City ofEast Riding of YorkshireNorth East LincolnshireNorth LincolnshireYorkCounty DurhamCheshire EastCheshire West and ChesterNorthumberlandCumberlandWestmorland and FurnessNorth YorkshireBurnleyChorleyFyldeHyndburnLancasterPendlePrestonRibble ValleyRossendaleSouth RibbleWest LancashireWyreBoltonBuryManchesterOldhamRochdaleSalfordStockportTamesideTraffordWiganKnowsleyLiverpoolSt. HelensSeftonWirralDoncasterRotherhamNewcastle upon TyneNorth TynesideSouth TynesideSunderlandBradfordCalderdaleKirkleesLeedsWakefieldGatesheadBarnsleySheffield

Open across United Kingdom, so every council area in the North of England is shaded.

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Things we could not confirm

  • Opening date is shown as 23/10/2026 but the page status is not stated; treated as upcoming relative to today (2026-10-27) only if the form is not yet open, so check the form.
  • Closing time shown as 12:00am; the text also says applications are open until 31 January 2027.
  • Funding is first-come, first-served with limited places; over 300 grants stated in the text, and the scheme is planned to extend to 2029.
  • Application link is an external SmartSurvey form; the text says the opportunity's own page is the source.

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Source and last checked

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