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FOI2024/00082: UKRI Independent Review Communications

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Case reference FOI2024/00082

Published 29 May 2024

Request

Request Received: 5 February 2024

Please answer this FOI on the basis of the UKRI 2022 independent report that you can find here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/independent-review-of-uk-research-and-innovation-ukri/independent-review-of-uk-research-and-innovation-ukri-final-report-and-recommendations

The FOI timing encompasses the seven (7) months prior to the publication of the report and the five (5) months after this date. Kindly provide me with the following electronic communications between the following people, but only if those communications are related to the aforementioned report:

• First: The UKRI CEO and the UKRI Chair of the Board,

• Second: The UKRI CEO and Sir David Grant,

• Third: The UKRI CEO and the Minister for Science, Research and Innovation,

• Fourth: Same as Second and Third, except that substitute "CEO" by "Chair of the Board".

I should add that if communications feature the inclusion of other parties not explicitly declared in the previous points, the e-mails shall still be considered within scope. Please consider that electronic communications can mean e-mails, but the search ought to include attachments, agendas, memos, MS Teams or Slack, etc.

Response

Response Sent: 11 April 2024

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

Documents

• FOI2024_00082 Annex 1.pdf (4.0 MB)
• FOI_Response_Letter_FOI2024_00082_Redacted.pdf (310.4 KB)

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