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. FOI2025/00481: Successful awards for innovation from April 22 to May 25

    Request received: 10 May 2025

    I would like to know from April 22 to May 25 what funding was actually successful. I want to know the following, for the above dates:

     

    1.     How much investment in awards, grants or loans were made to UK entities including:

    a.     Size of company awarded, Micro, small, medium or large

    b.     Industry they are in

    • Area of research and innovation- i.e. manufacturing, bio, software, AI etc.

    • Market place awardee operate in

    c.      How much was awarded

    d.     The variance of money set aside for awards and actual money spent on awards- IE. if 25M allocated for a round then how much was used of that amount?

    e.     The sex of the CEO- male or female

    f.       How many times has an awardee been successful? This will show bias to a certain company and not using funds to promote wider success of UK start ups.

    2.     How much money has been invested in each year for AI based R&D and:

    a.     Who was given that funding?

    b.     How much was given

    c.      What size of company was given the funding:

    • Micro

    • Small

    • Medium

    • Large

    3.     Are the innovative assessors sub-contracted or internal? how does Innovate prevent their biases?

    Published: 14 August 2025

  2. FOI2025/00566: Alphawave and Qualcomm

    Request Received: 16 June 2025

    I would like to request the following information:

    1. A list of any contracts, grants, tenders, or other forms of financial assistance awarded to Alphawave IP Group plc, Qualcomm Inc, or Qualcomm Technologies International Ltd, from January 2018 to present.

    For each instance, please include (where available):

    • The awarding department or agency

    • The date of award

    • The type of contract or support (e.g. research grant, procurement, technical advisory)

    • The approximate value

    • A short description of the purpose or project

    2. Please include any awards made directly or through intermediaries (e.g., via consortia, framework agreements, or strategic R&D programs) which may not be listed on public platforms such as Contracts Finder.

    If no such support has been provided, a confirmation of this would be appreciated.

    Published: 13 August 2025

  3. FOI2025/00609: Staff, Training and Procurement on Equality, Diversity, and Inclusivity

    Request Received: 27 June 2025

    1) The number of roles across all components of your operations, directorates and management structures, expressed in numbers of full-time employees (FTE), that are mainly or exclusively focused on issues of equality, diversity, or inclusivity. This information should encompass all roles based in central offices, as well as those based around the country.

    Roles meeting this description could include (amongst other guises) “Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Officer” (EDI) or “Diversity and Inclusion Project Managers”. Please break down, if possible, the number of roles per component part of your operations.

    For all roles meeting this description, please also provide, in order of preference, either a) the salary of these roles, b) the pay band of these roles, or c) the combined total salary of these roles. Please provide the information that is most in accordance with your data processing practices.

    Please also advise if there are any plans to hire further staff in these areas within the next 18 months, and the roles/pay bands that they are likely to occupy.

    2) With the same criteria as above, please provide the number of internal training courses attended by staff which pertain to the issues encompassed by equality, diversity or inclusivity. Please include the name of the courses, the number of attendees, and the duration of the course. The time period I am requesting, is from May 2024 to May 2025.

    3) Please, if possible, provide details of any internal EDI practices and networks, including the number of individuals who are members of such networks.

    4) Please provide details of any external contractors brought in by the department to conduct training, advice, or guidance on issues relating to EDI. Where applicable this should include costs and associated manhours. The time period I am requesting, is from May 2024 to May 2025.

    5) Please provide details of how equality, diversity and inclusivity is included in your procurement practices, the relative weight afforded to these considerations, and the current value of contracts in which EDI considerations was a part of the procurement process.

    6) If applicable, any data on the number of EDI officers at projects in receipt of funding by your organisation, or available information on their EDI practices. Failing this, your guidance to organisations applying for grant funding on expected equality and diversity practices/benchmarks.

    Published: 12 August 2025

  4. EIR2025/00555: List Funders & Inputters to Goldilocks Zones Paper

    Request Received: 10 June 2025

    BGS to confirm the complete list of any wind power or other renewable energy groups or individuals or any other entities that have sponsored or funded or inputted to the paper below in any way including any monetary or other benefit that the BGS has or will receive.

    Published: 11 August 2025

  5. FOI2025/00539: Innovate UK's Council Meetings Minutes

    Request Received: 5 June 2025

    According to https://www.ukri.org/who-we-are/innovate-uk/how-we-are-governed/:

    Our work is overseen by a council, which sets overall objectives and direction. The Council meets six times a year.

    I would like more information arising from the Innovate UK's council meetings.

    Please could you provide the following:

    1. Planned dates of these 6 council meetings for 2025.

    2. For all council meetings which have been completed since June 2024 (last publicly available data) to present (June 2025).

    a) Would you please provide all the minutes of meetings - full minutes, not summaries.

    b) Please provide all written notes taken by the chair within each meeting.

    c) Provide the arising action log for each meeting, and include internal progress report against said action log.

    3. For all future planned council meetings of 2025 - the preliminary agenda

    Published: 11 August 2025

  6. FOI2025/00579: HR Staff Exits

    Request Received: 4 June 2025

    Please could you let me know the number of people leaving UKRI who were employed, either permanently or on contract, within the HR function in Band F or above for each month starting from June 2024 through to May 2025

    The numbers should include exits:

    1. Under a UKRI voluntary exit scheme,

    2. with compensation in lieu of notice, and

    3. Under any other settlement agreements.

    For each month, please give the number of people leaving under each of the three categories above.

    Published: 6 August 2025

  7. FOI2025/00534: Pre-Menstrual Dysphoric Disorder Funding

    Request Received: 3 June 2025

    In 2023, how much money went into funding research on Pre-Menstrual Dysphoric Disorder and its treatments?

    In 2024, how much money went into funding research on Pre-Menstrual Dysphoric Disorder and its treatments?

    In 2023, how many people in the UK were diagnosed with Pre-Menstrual Dysphoric Disorder?

    In 2024, how many people in the UK were diagnosed with Pre-Menstrual Dysphoric Disorder?

    Published: 4 August 2025

  8. FOI2025/00525: Use of Animals in Research relation to Sepsis

    Request Received: 23 May 2025

    I am writing to make a request under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) 2000 for the disclosure of information relating to the use of animals under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986.

    In particular, I am interested in programs of work relating to sepsis, in which animals are deliberately induced to suffer from sepsis, conducted at the Medical Research Council Harwell Biological Services [and the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology]. For example, this may include the induction of sepsis via cecal/caecal ligation and puncture, administration of lipopolysaccharide, toxins or bacteria, colon ascendens stent peritonitis or other methods not stated. Please provide:

    1. The number of currently held project licences and licence applications in progress, pertaining to sepsis research as described above.

    2. Copies of the Home Office project licence(s) relating to sepsis research conducted at your institute for the period of 23 May 2020 to the current date.

    a. Please include the project protocols (including information on the methods pertaining to sepsis research) and information relating to the 3Rs (replacement, refinement and reduction).

    b. Information on the duration of active project licence(s), including the expiry date.

    c. Details on the number and species of animals used as part of the active project licence(s).

    3. Photographs and/or video footage of the methods performed to induce or study sepsis as part of the above projects.

    4. A copy of all written materials relating to the above licence(s) produced by and for the university's Animal Welfare and Ethical Review Body (AWERB), including minutes from relevant AWERB meetings and non-technical summaries.

    5. Where applicable, a copy of any retrospective review of procedures described in the project licence(s) (or any part of it) that has been conducted.

    Published: 4 August 2025

  9. ARMD4 Result Details

    Request Received: 2 July 2025

    Please could you provide funding outcome results details regarding the funding call: APCUK: ARMD4 Advanced Route to Market Demonstrator 4

    Data request:

    1. The number of applications.

    2. The number of assessed applications.

    3. The number of successful applications.

    4. The success rate.

    5. The minimum successful score.

    6. The maximum successful score.

    7. Maximum score of failed applications.

    8. Average grant fund value per project.

    9. Average score of funded projects.

    10. The score distributions of the applications (e.g. % (or number) of applications which scored <70, 70.1-75, 75.1-80, 80.1-85, 85.1-90, 90.1-95, 95.1-100).

    11. The count of assessed applications by innovation area.

    12. The count of successful projects by innovation area for each technological area.

    13. The number of unsuccessful applications, if any, which scored above the minimum funded score.

    Published: 30 July 2025

  10. FOI2025/00462: Regional breakdown of students

    Request received: 29 April 2025

    Is there any public info on the numbers of UKRI-funded students in diff parts of the UK? Is there a report or anything you can direct me to? Or even let me know some basic numbers?

    Published: 29 July 2025