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FOI2025/00715: Alan Turing allocations

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Case reference FOI2025/00715

Received 11 August 2025

Published 13 February 2026

Request

Request received: 11 August 2025

Your request:

Please could I obtain any information EPSRC has regarding the Alan Turing Institute's funding allocations, Turing 2.0 Strategy, 'defence, and national security', and 'environment and health' since 1 March 2025 until 11 August 2025.

Clarification received 15 August 2025:

“any information” - can you please specify which information your request refers to as this is a broad term? - Discussions had within Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) between senior figures e.g. Peter Kyle and Doug Gurr, related to the future funding of the Alan Turing Institute

"information [EPSRC] has regarding the Alan Turing Institute’s funding allocations" Are you referring to the actual allocation made since March 1st, or any discussion regarding potential future allocation regarding Turing since March 1st? - potential future allocation

Are you seeking "'defence, and national security', and 'environment and health'" relating to Turing 2.0, or after the funding info for those two areas? - Funding information for these two areas Clarification received 15 September 2025:

Further clarification was sought in order to bring the request under the threshold of 18 hours of resource, which would otherwise engage section 12 of the FOIA, where the cost of compliance exceeds the appropriate limit. Several searches were conducted and the results were provided to enable you to advise on the results that should be considered for your request, which you confirmed as follows:

Please can I go for combinations 6, 11 and 13 as outlined below:

• Search 06. "future allocation" AND "Turing Institute" AND “dsit.gov.uk” - 48 results

• Search 11. "Turing 2.0" AND "strategy AND "dsit.gov.uk" - 72 results

• Search 13. "funding allocation" AND "Turing Institute AND "dsit.gov.uk" - 31 results

Response

Response sent: 16 December 2025

Full details of this response are provided in the attached documents

Documents

• 01. Peter Kyle 16.07.25 letter from D Gurr_Redacted.pdf (221.5 KB)
• 02. SoS Letter to Doug Gurr_Redacted.pdf (172.6 KB)
• 03. RE_ Peter Kyle_ SoS DSIT Meeting Request_Redacted.pdf (97.5 KB)
• FOI_Response_Letter - FOI2025_00715_Redacted.pdf (303.2 KB)

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