Freedom of information (FOI) releases from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)

This is a disclosure log of UK Research and Innovation's responses to freedom of information (FOI) or environmental information regulations (EIR) requests that might be of wider public interest.

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1,326 disclosures

  1. FOI2025/01143: SMART Grants for AI

    Request Received: 29 December 2025

    Under the Freedom of Information Act, I would like to know how many UKRI SMART grants have been awarded for projects focusing on Artificial Intelligence between the years 2020 to 2025.

    Published: 14 January 2026

  2. FOI2025/01053: Governance of FOI2025/00705 and Internal Review IR2025/00966

    Request Received: 22 November 2025

    Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I am requesting the following limited governance-related information concerning the handling of FOI2025/00705 and its internal review IR2025/00966:

    1. A copy of the internal search protocol or keyword list used to identify the 1,411 documents referred to in UKRI’s refusal letter dated 24th October 2025;

    2. Confirmation of which internal UKRI teams (e.g. Counter Fraud, Assurance, Legal, etc.) were consulted by the Information Rights Team in responding to this FOI;

    3. The date on which any of the four whistleblowing reports submitted to UKRI Counter Fraud between May and July 2025 were first logged or referenced as part of the FOI response process;

    4. A copy of any internal case summary, briefing note, or referral email prepared for the purposes of internal review IR2025/00966.

    Published: 14 January 2026

  3. FOI2025/01034: Experimental Medicine to Define New Mechanisms of Neurodegeneration

    Request Received: 11 November 2025

    I found this closed funding opportunity on the UKRI website as part of my review: Experimental medicine to define new mechanisms of neurodegeneration.

    I was very excited to see the call was for applications interested in investigating the causes, progression and treatment of neurodegenerative conditions that give rise to dementia. The funding process closed in March 2025.

    Please could you send this curious citizen a list of the hypotheses that received funding, and a rough idea of when the results of the studies will be published? I realise it may be a while!

    Published: 13 January 2026

  4. FOI2025/00678: ME/CFS Delivery Plan: Decisions on Biomedical Research Funding

    Request Received: 29 July 2025

    I request the following information regarding the UK Government’s ME/CFS Delivery Plan published in July 2025:

    1. Copies of all meeting minutes, briefing papers, internal reports, and email correspondence (from January 2022 to present) in which the Department or UKRI/MRC discussed whether or not to specifically allocate funding for biomedical research into ME/CFS as part of the Delivery Plan.

    2. Any assessments, cost-benefit analyses, or recommendations presented to ministers or senior officials about the impact of allocating (or not allocating) such funding.

    3. The names of any committees, working groups, or advisory panels involved in making this decision.

    4. Copies of any responses to stakeholders (patient organisations, researchers, or advocacy groups) who requested allocated biomedical research funding during the Delivery Plan’s consultation phase.

    Clarification Received: 10 September 2025

    [For Q1] Please use the first search terms suggested

    • ((("ME/CFS" OR "Myalgic encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome" OR "Post-Exertional Malaise") AND ("Funding") AND ("Delivery Plan" OR "ring-fence" OR "reserved funding")) AND ((ItemClass=IPM.Note) AND (Kind=email))) AND (Date=2022-01-01..2025-07-29)

    Published: 12 January 2026

  5. FOI2025/00735: Concentrations of Crime Data Challenge Projects

    Request Received: 18 August 2025

    UKRI recently announced the launch of its Concentrations of Crime Data Challenge and said four initial projects have been commissioned. I'm seeking the following information:

    1) Names and locations of the four initial projects and the amounts of funding allocated to each one

    2) Copies of any application materials submitted to the UKRI by the project teams

    3) Copies of any evaluations that informed the UKRI's decision to fund each project

    Published: 30 December 2025

  6. EIR2025/00943: Non-Coal Mining Subsidence and Housing

    Request Received: 15 October 2025

    Dear British Geological Survey,

    I am researching the risk of subsidence from non-coal mining (e.g., limestone, ironstone, salt, tin, fluorspar) to residential property in the United Kingdom.

    Although I understand BGS is not a public authority for the purposes of the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I note that you operate an access-to-information policy in a similar spirit. I would therefore be grateful for the following:

    1. Any digital dataset or map layer you hold that shows the approximate boundaries of former non-coal mining areas where significant voids or shallow workings are recorded.

    2. The number of recorded instances of subsidence or crown-hole events attributed to non-coal mining that have affected residential properties in the last ten calendar years (2014-2024), broken down by local authority within the West Midlands.

    3. Any published or internal reports since 2020 that assess the susceptibility of residential land to non-coal mining subsidence, including any advice given to local-planning authorities.

    4. If the information is already available under licence, please advise the licence terms and cost for academic/private use.

    If any part of the request is refused, please provide a refusal notice explaining which exemption is engaged and carry out a public-interest test where appropriate.

    Published: 30 December 2025

  7. FOI2025/00920: Gambling Harms Research and Innovation Programme

    Request Received: 10 October 2025

    Please can you supply the names of all external organisations that UKRI met with between 1st July and the present date where funding for its gambling harms research and innovation programme was discussed?

    Published: 15 December 2025

  8. FOI2025/00807: STFC Webinar Slides and Transcript

    Request Received: 10 September 2025

    Under the FOI Act, please could I have both the presentation slides and a transcript of the STFC all-staff webinar held 3 September?

    Published: 8 December 2025

  9. FOI2025/00877: IUK Creative Industries & Digital Competitions (North East Awards 2019–2025)

    Request Received: 1 October 2025

    Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I would like to request the following information:

    1. A list of all successful awards made by Innovate UK under the following competitions:

    • Creative Catalyst (including SME grants and Collaborative R&D)

    • Create Growth Programme competitions (all rounds)

    • Any Innovate UK/UKRI Investor Partnership competitions linked to the creative industries or digital sectors

    • BridgeAI competitions where the sector focus included the creative industries

    2. Please restrict the scope to awards made between 1 January 2019 and 30 September 2025 to organisations whose registered address is within the North East of England region (i.e. Tyne & Wear, Northumberland, County Durham, and Tees Valley).

    3. For each successful award, please provide:

    • Recipient organisation name

    • Project title

    • Competition name / round

    • Award amount (£)

    • Award date

    • Recipient organisation’s town/city and county

    I am not requesting any commercially sensitive technical details, business models, or personal data.

    Published: 8 December 2025

  10. FOI2025/00876: Smart Grant applications supported by Grantify UK

    Request Received: 28 September 2025

    Can you please tell me the success rate of all 'Smart Grant' applications assisted by the grant writing company, Grantify UK, in 2022, 2023 & 2024.

    If there is no recorded data on 'success rates', can you please tell me what percentage of submissions were assisted by Grantify UK.

    Published: 2 December 2025