Quantum Technologies

Britain built an early, sustained national quantum programme. The mission is to ensure the resulting companies, supply chain and customers are British rather than acquired early.

• British quantum companies reaching commercial deployment
• Procurement pathways that create first customers
• A domestic component supply chain

Comparable in function to the Netherlands' Quantum Delta programme.

• One of the earliest national quantum technology programmes in the world.
• Four established quantum research hubs with industrial partners.
• Photonics and cryogenics supply chain capability.

Current geographic hypothesis: Distributed. Core capability concentrates around Oxford, Birmingham, Bristol and Glasgow, with complementary strength in Cambridge, London and Edinburgh.. This is indicative geography — a record of where relevant capability is concentrated today, not a decision that this mission belongs to one place or that anything would be built there.

• National Quantum Computing Centre
• Quantum hubs at Oxford, Birmingham, Glasgow and York
• Bristol's quantum engineering base

The types of organisation and individual already active in this capability. Listing a participant type is a description of the ecosystem, not membership, endorsement or a commitment by anyone named or implied.

• Quantum founders and researchers
• Component and photonics suppliers
• Defence, energy and infrastructure customers
• Patient deep-tech capital

• Quantum computing
• Quantum sensing and timing
• Quantum communications
• Enabling photonics and cryogenics

• University of Oxford
• University of Birmingham
• University of Glasgow
• University of Bristol

• Fabrication and cleanroom access
• Cryogenic facilities
• Testbeds with real operating environments
• Compute for simulation

Listing infrastructure is not a proposal to build it. Physical intervention is only recommended where evidence demonstrates additionality.

1. Research→
2. Problem→
3. Prototype→
4. Company→
5. Capital→
6. Customer→
7. Scale→
8. Export

• British quantum companies reaching commercial deployment
• Procurement pathways that create first customers
• A domestic component supply chain

These are hypotheses to be tested, not forecasts, targets or guarantees. Each would need to pass the additionality test — would it happen anyway, or happen elsewhere in Britain? — before it counts as a reason to intervene. UKIZ makes no projections it cannot evidence.