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. FOI2026/00737: Grooming-Gangs Research Programme: Final Research Specification

    Request Received: 15 August 2026

    Please treat this as a request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

    On 9 December 2025 the Home Secretary announced that UKRI had been commissioned to undertake research addressing gaps in understanding grooming-gang perpetrators' backgrounds and motivations, including ethnicity and religion.

    Please provide the final agreed or currently operative research specification, commissioning brief or statement of requirements defining the substantive scope and required outputs of that specific research programme, including any annexes forming part of the operative specification.

    I do not require funding applications or bids, reviewer comments, procurement evaluations, pricing information, personal information or general correspondence.

    If the scope-setting record bears another title, please provide the final or currently operative record performing that function.

    Published: 14 September 2026

  2. FOI2026/00482: Agency recruitment

    Request received: 4 June 2026

    I would like to request access to information regarding agency recruitment for UKRI.

    Is there a formally procured contract in place with any agencies?

    If so what is the contract, who are the agencies engaged and when is it due for renewal?

    Published: 14 September 2026

  3. FOI2026/00545: Innovate UK Frontier AI Discovery

    Request received: 25 June 2026

    I would like to request the following information regarding Phase 1 of the Innovate UK Frontier AI Discovery Competition which closed on June 10th this year:

    1. Total number of Phase 1 applications; and

    2. Total number of Phase 1 applications that were deemed ineligible and not sent for assessment; and

    3. Of those ineligible Phase 1 applications please provide a statistical breakdown of the criteria used to reject the application.

    Published: 14 September 2026

  4. FOI2026/00560: EPSRC Standard Grants - Energy and Decarbonisation theme

    Request received: 3 July 2026

    My request relates specifically to the EPSRC, Energy and Decarbonisation theme.

    Please provide me with the following information:

    1. The list of successful applications for EPSRC Standard Research Grants in the Energy and Decarbonisation theme, specifically within Renewables and Power, from January 2024 until June 2026.

    2. The success rate for applications received for EPSRC Standard Research Grants in the Energy and Decarbonisation theme, specifically within Renewables and Power, from January 2024 until June 2026.

    Published: 14 September 2026

  5. FOI2026/00459: Research England QR Funding Allocations to University of Westminster

    Request received: 24 May 2026

    I am requesting access to the following financial and statistical information held by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) / Research England regarding funding allocations to the University of Westminster: 
     
    1. The total annual Quality-Related (QR) block grant funding allocated and paid by Research England to the University of Westminster for each financial year from 2021/22 to the present, specifically under Unit of Assessment 11 (Computer Science and Informatics). 
     
    2. The standard funding models, metrics, or calculation frameworks used by Research England to determine the specific annual monetary value generated by a single 3* or 4* Impact Case Study within Unit of Assessment 11 during the REF 2021 funding cycle. 
     
    3. Any recorded financial metrics, funding audit notes, or allocation data held by Research England concerning the specific University of Westminster REF 2021 Impact Case Study titled: "Optimisation of Image Quality in the Security and Smart Phone Sectors" (submitted under Unit of Assessment 11). 

    Published: 14 September 2026

  6. FOI2026/00558: Farming Innovation Programme competitions

    Request received: 2 July 2026

    data relating to success rates and applicant numbers and other information for the Farming Innovation Programme competitions. Please provide this data by completing the table below.

    Competition / strand

    Deadline month/year

    Competition round / reference (e.g, Round 10)

    Funding available for that round (£)

    Total number of applications received

    Number of applications passing eligibility checks

    Number of applications scoring 70+

    Number of applications scoring 80+

    Number of applications awarded funding

    Largest grant awarded (£)

    Smallest grant awarded (£)

    Average total project size of awarded projects (£)

    Average grant amount awarded (£)

    Please provide the data for the latest round available within your records. I have also included fields for the deadline month/year and competition round (e.g., Round 10).

    Published: 14 September 2026

  7. FOI2026/00102: STFC budget and UKRI restructure

    Request received: 10 February 2026

    1. Please supply all documentation setting out the full breakdown of the budget for the Science and Technology Facilities Council for each financial year, since the creation of UK Research and Innovation in 2018, including the international subscriptions, the running costs of each domestic and international facility within STFC, staff costs, and the resource grants awarded each year for astronomy, nuclear and particle physics.

    2. Please supply all documentation and correspondence, including decision papers seen by the STFC executive and Science Board, relating to the removal of the protections in the STFC budget for astronomy, nuclear and particle physics grants, from facilities costs and exchange rate fluctuations for international subscriptions. These were introduced in around 2008 by the then science minister Lord Drayson and we understand that they were removed around a decade ago.

    3. Please supply all documentation and correspondence relating to discussions on restructuring UKRI, which we understand took place in 2024 and 2025.

    Published: 14 September 2026

  8. FOI2026/00499: Number of spinout companies formed, broken down by the originating higher education institutions

    Request received: 9 June 2026

    For each financial year from 2020-21 to the most recent available data, please provide the number of spinout companies formed, broken down by the originating higher education institution as recorded in UKRI's monitoring system.

    For each financial year from 2020-21 to the most recent available data, please provide the number of spinout companies formed, broken down by the UKRI research council or funding programme associated with the parent research project, for example EPSRC, BBSRC, MRC, AHRC, ESRC, Innovate UK, or Research England.

    For each financial year from 2020-21 to the most recent available data, please provide the total value of UKRI grant funding awarded to the parent research projects from which spinout companies were subsequently formed, broken down by research council or funding programme.

    If the funding value associated with a parent research project is not recorded as a discrete field within the spinout monitoring system, please provide instead the number of spinout companies for which a parent grant reference is recorded, broken down by research council, and confirm that the funding value is not centrally held in the spinout monitoring system.

    I am requesting aggregate figures only and no information identifying any individual company, researcher, or grant recipient. Please treat each numbered question as severable and provide whatever information can be disclosed in relation to each question independently.

    Published: 14 September 2026

  9. FOI2026/00251: Structure of Innovate UK

    Request Received: 24 March 2026

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

    1. Any current (as of 13 July 2026) organisational charts (organograms) showing the structure of Innovate UK, for the business units, directorates or functions involved in designing, delivering and assessing funding competitions (i.e. opportunities published via the Innovation Funding Service, IUK Business Connect and the UKRI Funding Finder). As I do not know which directorates are involved, please include all relevant organisational charts.

    2. Any documents or descriptions [role profiles] outlining the roles and responsibilities of the key roles involved in the design, delivery and assessment of funding competitions. I am happy for you to provide whichever current role profiles best satisfy this part of the request. For example, if there are a small number of key roles involved, those profiles would be sufficient; alternatively, if a broader role profile (such as Innovation Lead) adequately describes these responsibilities, that would also be acceptable.

    3. Any internal process documentation describing how funding competitions are designed, delivered, and assessed, including the roles involved at each stage.

    Published: 9 September 2026

  10. FOI2026/00693: Multiple CFI Competition Data

    Request received: 10 August 2026

    I am looking for the following information.

    A) For the CfI: Earlier identification of UK children with SEN Competition please provide the number of applications received , I am aware this competition has just closed, I only require the number of applications received

    B) For these two competitions: CfI Improving Outcomes for Children Experiencing Homelessness and also CfI: Boosting fathers’ engagement to improve child outcomes please provide the following:

    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) The maximum score of failed applications.
    8) Average grant fund value per project.
    9) Average score of funded projects.

    Published: 8 September 2026