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. FOI2025/00486: UKRI System Hosting

    Request Received: 13 May 2025

    I am seeking information from UK Research and Innovation about how their information systems are hosted. I am specifically referring to https://www.ukri.org/.

    For the information system, I would like to know the following details on 11/6/2025.

    1. Is the system hosted on-premises by UKRI, by a commercial hosting provider (e.g., a cloud provider such as Amazon Web Services), a combination of the two, or via some other arrangement?

    2. If a commercial hosting provider is involved, please supply the name of the provider(s).

    3. Since when have the current hosting arrangements been in place?

    Published: 9 July 2025

  2. FOI2025/00419: Documents and Emails relating to Policy Support Fund

    Request Received: 21 April 2025

    Following FOI2025/00015, I would like to request any further internal briefings, papers, policy documents and emails threads prepared between 8 January 2025 and 30 April 2025, that relate to modelling and options for sector Policy Support Fund allocation for 2025/26 and beyond.

    Further, I'd like to request internal emails from the same period, relating to plans and timelines for communicating the PSF allocation for 25/26 to universities.

    Published: 8 July 2025

  3. FOI2025/00293: STFC Webinar Transcript

    Request Received: 11 March 2025

    Please can I submit a freedom of information request for the STFC all staff webinar transcript held on 26 February?

    Published: 8 July 2025

  4. FOI2025/00403: Spend Data over £25,000

    Request received: 11 April 2025

    I'd like to make a request under the Freedom of Information Act for all of your entity's transactions over £25,000 for January 2016 to March 2025.

    Please provide the data in a machine-readable format (preferably CSV). As a minimum, please make sure to include the date, value, and recipient of each transaction. Please also provide details on the procurement category of each transaction if you have it.

    Published: 3 July 2025

  5. FOI2025/00540: Social Media Management and Listening Tool

    Request Received: 4 June 2025

    Your request:

    1) Do you use a social media management platform?

    2) If so, what tools do you use?

    3) What is your annual spend on a Social media management tool?

    4) What dates does your contract with your current supplier end (in the format of [month/year]) ?

    5) Do you use a social listening / media monitoring platform?

    6) If so, what tools do you use?

    7) What is your annual spend on a social listening / media monitoring tool?

    8) What dates does your contract with your current supplier end (in the format of [month/year])

    9) Who is the senior person responsible for managing these contracts?

    Published: 1 July 2025

  6. FOI2025/00405: Quinquennial Review Quadram Institute

    Request Received: 13 April 2025

    I would like to request the latest quinquennial or the institute review, whichever takes place, by BBSRC or UKRI of the Quadram Institute.

    Clarification Received: 24 April 2025

    Thank you for your response and for explaining what information is available and what isn’t. I was hoping BBSRC-funded research institutes such as the Quadram Institute would have undergone quinquennial or institute reviews, and there would be information available similar to, for example, the quinquennial review of The Alan Turing Institute. (https://www.ukri.org/publications/quinquennial-review-of-the-alan-turing-institute/).

    From your response, I understand that BBSRC doesn’t hold such information for the Quadram Institute, as no such review has ever taken place.

    I am not interested in the strategic programme grant application made by the Quadram Institute as part of the institute assessment exercise. However, I would like to request any feedback that was given to the Quadram Institute at the latest institute assessment exercise.

    Published: 30 June 2025

  7. FOI2025/00423: Staff Networks

    Request Received: 17 April 2025

    This is an information request relating to

    Please include the following information for the financial years 2023/24 and 2024/25:

    • A list of all the staff networks at the organisation

    • Whether each network receives internal funding and, if so, how much (please express annually for the last four financial years)

    • How much FTE equivalent staff time each network is entitled to. For example, a staff network may have a chair who’s entitled to spend 10% of their working hours devoted to the network (please express annually for the last three financial years)

    • A list of events that each network has held in this financial year so far (April to the present day), including the title of the event, information on any guest speakers and the time of the event

    Published: 30 June 2025

  8. FOI2025/00426: Blocked Emails

    Request received: 23 April 2025

    Please detail the number of email attacks blocked by your organisation, broken down by spam, phishing, malware and edge block, each year for the past three years from May to April.  

    E.g.  

    May 2025 - April 2024

    250,000 total email attacks blocked:

    o   100,000 spam emails blocked

    o   75,000 phishing emails blocked

    o   50,000 malware emails blocked

    o   25,000 edge block emails blocked

    Published: 30 June 2025

  9. FOI2025/00404: Research England Council Meeting Minutes

    Request Received: 13 April 2025

    I would like to request the council meeting minutes of Research England council since 2nd February 2023 when the last meeting minutes were made public.

    Published: 23 June 2025

  10. FOI2025/00529: Distributed System of Scientific Collections UK

    Request Received: 30 May 2025

    I would be most grateful if you would provide me, under the Freedom of Information Act, details in respect to the contract below.

    Distributed System of Scientific Collections UK:

    The details we require are:

    1. What are the contractual performance KPI's for this contract?

    2. Suppliers who applied for inclusion on each framework/contract and were successful & not successful at the PQQ & ITT stages

    3. Actual spend on this contract/framework (and any sub lots), from the start of the contract to the current date

    4. Start date & duration of framework/contract?

    5. Could you please provide a copy of the service/product specification given to all bidders for when this contract was last advertised?

    6. Is there an extension clause in the framework(s)/contract(s) and, if so, the duration of the extension?

    7. Has a decision been made yet on whether the framework(s)/contract(s) are being either extended or renewed?

    8. Who is the senior officer (outside of procurement) responsible for this contract? Or if this information is unavailable, please may you confirm their Job Title?

    Published: 23 June 2025