FOI2021/00335: August & November 2020 SMART Competitions
Case reference FOI2021/00335
Published 15 September 2021
Request
Request Received: 20 July 2021
If the information is available and you are able to share it could you please answer the following requests: For the SMART AUGUST and NOVEMBER 2020 competition, for both the <18 month (<£500k) and >18 month streams:
1. The number of applications
2. The number of successful applications
3. The success rate
4. The minimum successful score
5. The maximum successful score
6. Maximum score of failed applications
7. Average grant fund value per project
8. Total funds allocated
9. The score distributions of the applications (e.g. % (or number) of applications which scored <70, 70-75, 76-80, 81-85,86+)
10. The count of successful projects by innovation area for each strand.
I would also like to request the number of unsuccessful applications, if any, which scored above the minimum funded score, please.
Response
Response Sent: 6 August 2021
Under Section 21, information already reasonably accessible, of the FOIA the following information you have requested is already available in the public domain:
• Requested statistics for the Smart Grants: August 2020 competition
• Requested statistics for the Smart Grants: November 2020 competition
UKRI actively publish information on the FOI requests that are received. A copy of the request and response sent by UKRI is available on UKRI's FOI disclosure log which contains all FOI requests from December 2019 up to June 2021.
Section 21 is an absolute exemption which means that there is no requirement to conduct a public interest test.
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