FOI release

FOI2022/00027: Peer review scores (re: FOI2021/00427)

This request was refused in full, so we didn't provide the information the requester asked for. This may include information where we can neither confirm nor deny that we hold it.

Case reference FOI2022/00027

Published 3 May 2022

Request

Request Received: 24 January 2022

I apologise for the delay in replying to your letter of the 12th of October 2021, but I hope it is still possible to address your responses. Specifically, I would like to modify my request in order to overcome your objection that "we believe it may be possible to match reviewer scores to individual grant proposals, which would be a breach of peer review confidentiality".

In order to make it impossible to associate a review score with a particular grant, I would instead like to request that just the peer review scores are provided along with the overall panel score (as opposed to the ranking as before), with the provision that in cases where there is a single grant with a particular score, it be eliminated from the dataset. In this way, there is no way to determine which peer review scores are associated with which grants, which I hope will address your concerns without adversely affecting my request. If the returned data could mention where this is the case (a note saying "Results with a panel score of 6 are not available for confidentiality reasons" or similar, for example) I should be able to make any statistical corrections necessary.

Response

Response Sent: 10 February 2022

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

Documents

• FOI_Response_Letter_FOI2022_00027_Redacted.pdf (240.7 KB)

This is UK Research and Innovation's response to a freedom of information (FOI) or environmental information regulations (EIR) request.

You can browse our other responses or make a new FOI request.