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FOI2026/00106: UKRI Audits - University of Leeds

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Case reference FOI2026/00106

Received 11 February 2026

Published 9 June 2026

Request

Request received: 11 February 2026

I would like to respectfully request copies of the documents for all the audits conducted by the UKRI at the University of Leeds, during the period January 2020 - present, with regard to how the University of Leeds has ensured compliance wit UKRI documents and requirements, including but not limited to the UKRI training grant terms and conditions. (But also other relevant documents such as, for example, the UKRI Statement of Expectations for PhD projects.)

If there are project-specific audits, please let me know and please provide the audits for the research project that has project reference - 2598155.

(https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2598155)

If there aren't any such project-specific audits, then please confirm that there aren't such documents. And, in this case, please provide any other documents for audits conducted by the UKRI with regard to how the University of Leeds is ensuring compliance with the UKRI training grant terms and conditions (for research programmes that are funded by using UKRI research grants.)

If there are documents for both project-specific audits (for the project mentioned above) and for the University of Leeds's UKRI compliance in general, please provide both.

If there are documents for audits that pertain specifically to how the School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering of the University of Leeds has complied with UKRI documentation, terms and conditions, during the period mentioned above please kindly provide these as well.

Please provide the documents mentioned in this email both for audits conducted by the UKRI (by, for example, visiting or inspecting the University of Leeds) as well as documents for audits conducted by the University of Leeds (self-audit).

If any of the documents I requested do not exist (e.g., if there have been no audits), please state this clearly for each of the documents (or, as the case may be, category of documents) mentioned above.

If any of the documents requested do exist but cannot be disclosed to me, then please state this clearly for each of the documents requested above, stating the reason why they can't be disclosed. Please also let me know the contact information (email address, postal address, person of contact etc) of the UKRI's legal affairs team. (This is because, in such a case, I may have to use another route / procedure in order to obtain the same documents.)

Response

Response sent: 13 April 2026

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