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FOI2022/00009: Monitoring Officer Complaints

Some or all of the information requested was not provided because we determined that the cost to do so would exceed the appropriate limit.

Case reference FOI2022/00009

Published 28 March 2022

Request

Request Received: 16 January 2022

I would like to make a request under the Freedom of Information Act to be provided with the following information by Innovate UK:

For each of the years 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020 the following data:

i. For each of the above years the number of complaints made by grant holders concerning the bullying, harassing and other types of dysfunctional behaviours & attitudes of Monitoring Officers directed towards grant holders.

ii. The number of monitoring officers who did not have levels of work-life balances

iii. For each of the above years the percentage of these complaints that were responded to within the 10-day time frame published at URL Complaints procedure - Innovate UK - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

iv. For each of the above years the number of these complaints that were resolved to the grant holder's satisfaction.

v. For each of the above years the number of Monitoring Officers recruited and the number of Monitoring Officers who resigned.

vi. The suitability of applicants who had successfully been employed as Monitoring Officers, in terms of the percentage of Monitoring Officers recruited that had:

• Insufficient or no technical knowledge of the project and tasks being undertaken

• Insufficient or no expertise of the project and tasks being undertaken

• Insufficient or no past experience of the project management of R&D projects

• Insufficient or no past experience of financial management of R&D projects including those financial management methods used by IUK

• Insufficient or no practical skills in computing requirements used in R&D projects to monitor these projects

Response

Response Sent: 15 February 2022

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

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