FOI2021/00122: UKRI Ideas to address COVID-19: Innovate UK Article 25 Dec 2020
Case reference FOI2021/00122
Published 24 June 2021
Request
Request Received: 26 February 2021
RE: UKRI Ideas to address COVID-19: Innovate UK Article 25 Dec 2020
The original submission date for this competition in round 4 was 21st October 2020, the submission date was then moved to the end of November. Innovate UK have stated they were waiting for a request for an increased budget to meet the large number of projects identified as successful in this competition.
Can you please show what the original budget was, what the increased amount was, indicate how much of your requested increase was successful to meet the demand you identified & how much of the total old or new increased budget has been allocated to winners of the competition.
Response
Response Sent: 26 March 2021
The UKRI budget for the competition 'UKRI Ideas to address COVID-19: Innovate UK Article 25 Dec 2020' was initially £50m for the UKRI call. UKRI submitted a business case for additional budget for cross council projects; an additional £120m was approved. This was for projects across research and innovation.
Innovate UK Round 4 budget confirmation for projects requesting funding below £880,000 was initially £2m which was increased to £5m. Projects which were requesting funding of greater than £800,000 were not included in the £5m allocation to Innovate UK and were funded from the specific UKRI taskforce budget and required the approval of the UKRI Taskforce.
With regard to your question on "how much of the total old or new increased budget has been allocated to winners of the competition", the budget for the whole competition (rounds 1-4) was £44.4m and a total of 104 projects have been supported. Allocations were made from the total budget of £44.4m and we hold no further information on the distinction between old and new budgets.
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