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FOI2022/00022: Engineering Biology/SynBio calls - Rejections based on merit/scope

Some or all of the information requested was not provided because we determined that the cost to do so would exceed the appropriate limit.

Case reference FOI2022/00022

Published 28 March 2022

Request

Request Received: 21 January 2022

I would like to receive information on the number of proposals submitted to all calls from the last decade which relate specifically to the "Engineering Biology" and/or "SynBio"-priority area of the BBSRC. For each call, listed by name and date, two simple numbers suffice:

Number 1: The total number of submissions to the call.

Number 2: The number of proposals rejected because they were judged to be outside remit.

In addition, I would like to know the average percentage of proposals that are rejected based on remit for standard calls of the BBRSC for each of the last 3 years. That is: three numbers, one for each year, which gives the percentage of calls rejected because they were judged to be outside remit.

Response

Response Sent: 11 February 2022

Full details of this response are provided in the attached document.

Documents

• FOI_Response_Letter_FOI2022_00022_Redacted.pdf (235.0 KB)

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