FOI2025/00481: Successful awards for innovation from April 22 to May 25
Case reference FOI2025/00481
Received 10 May 2025
Published 14 August 2025
Last amended 14 August 2025
Request
Request received: 10 May 2025
I would like to know from April 22 to May 25 what funding was actually successful. I want to know the following, for the above dates:
1. How much investment in awards, grants or loans were made to UK entities including:
a. Size of company awarded, Micro, small, medium or large
b. Industry they are in
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Area of research and innovation- i.e. manufacturing, bio, software, AI etc.
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Market place awardee operate in
c. How much was awarded
d. The variance of money set aside for awards and actual money spent on awards- IE. if 25M allocated for a round then how much was used of that amount?
e. The sex of the CEO- male or female
f. How many times has an awardee been successful? This will show bias to a certain company and not using funds to promote wider success of UK start ups.
2. How much money has been invested in each year for AI based R&D and:
a. Who was given that funding?
b. How much was given
c. What size of company was given the funding:
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Micro
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Small
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Medium
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Large
3. Are the innovative assessors sub-contracted or internal? how does Innovate prevent their biases?
Response
Response sent: 19 June 2025
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