Freedom of information (FOI) releases from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)
This is a disclosure log of UK Research and Innovation's responses to freedom of information (FOI) or environmental information regulations (EIR) requests that might be of wider public interest.
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1,058 disclosures
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Request Received: 21 October 2020
Under the Freedom of Information Act, I would like to request how much money has been lent to date under the sustainable innovation fund, and which companies have been given money since the start of the scheme to date.
I would ideally like to see the amounts in an excel spreadsheet.
These requests do not fall under the official secrets act. While there will be a degree of commercial confidentiality, we believe the nature of state aid finance in question should mean that the names of the companies that have received money from the government should at least be readily available under public interest.
Published: 17 June 2021
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Request Received: 25 September 2020
1. External training spend in the previous 3 fiscal years (2017/18, 2018/19, 2019/20) in UK Research and Innovation, broken down by:
a. Amount spent through the Civil Service Learning contract and amount spent to deliver external training through other contracts
b. Under the Civil Service Learning Contract
i. Amount spent on online/digital delivery versus amount spent on in-person delivery
ii. Amount of spend allocated for bespoke courses specifically developed for your needs and amount of spend allocated for 'off-the-shelf' training material
2. Breakdown of the 2019/20 external training spend through the CSL contract in UK Research and Innovation by course, including:
a. Total amount spent per course
b. Total number of learners per course
c. Training provider that delivered the course
d. Course delivery method - i.e. online/digital or in-person
e. Name of course
f. Subject area of course
3. External training budget for 2020/21 fiscal year in UK Research and Innovation, broken down by:
a. Budget to spend through the Civil Service Learning contract
b. Budget to spend on the delivery of external training through other contracts
4. Any analysis undertaken on how your department's training needs have shifted this year compared to previous years.
For example, are you planning greater emphasis on Leadership & Management courses or training delivered through digital/online courses?
5. Total number of civil service employees working in UK Research and Innovation (please provide latest available data)
Published: 17 June 2021
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Request Received: 26 October 2020
Any funding given to research whistleblowing since 2010 to the present date.
Published: 17 June 2021
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Request Received: 2 November 2020
You have previously received a request, reference FOI2020/00197, for information about the Innovate UK Smart Grants competition of January 2020.
At the time of your final response in July 2020, you did not have all the information requested available because the assessment process had not been completed. I would be grateful if you could now provide the information originally requested. Please could you provide the following information in regard to the Smart Grants: January 2020 Competition:
1. Total number of applications
2. Number of assessed applications (not disregarded due to being deemed out of scope etc)
3. Number of applications funded
4. Number of applications funded per 'innovation area'
5. Average funding amount per project
6. Smallest and largest amount of funding per project
7. Average score
8. Success threshold
9. Decision-making process based on portfolio (i.e. why higher scoring projects might not get funded and lower scoring project get funded).
I believe it is in the public interest for this information to be published, ensuring that UKRI / Innovate UK are held accountable for their utilisation and allocation of public money.
Published: 17 June 2021
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Request Received: 24 October 2020
I hope you are well. In accordance with the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I request the following.
1. All research proposals and accompanying Gantt charts submitted to the Molecular and Cell Medicine Board since 2015, whose project title contains any of the following terms: "organ," "organs," "transplant," "transplants," "heart," "hearts," "lung," "lungs," "liver," "livers," "kidney," or "kidneys."
2. All research proposals and accompanying Gantt charts from applications for the UK-China AMR Research Partnerships Initiative, submitted by Principal Investigators at the University of Sheffield.
3. All research proposals and accompanying Gantt charts from applications for the UKRI-NSFC Joint Call: Understanding and Addressing Health and Social Challenges for Ageing in the UK and China, submitted by Principal Investigators at the University of Sheffield.
Published: 17 June 2021
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Request Received: 5 October 2020
1. Please can you provide copies of any guidance and/or rules setting out the roles and responsibilities of the Monitoring Officer? In particular, I am interested in understanding the MO's powers and obligations in relation to accepting or rejecting PCRs and the framework they apply when taking such decisions.
2. I am also interested in any rules or guidance that applies to the MO's roles and responsibilities in relation to the implementation of a communications protocol with partners of an approved funding project that are not Project leads.
3. It would also be helpful to understand the complaints escalation procedures where official communication provided by MO is not reaching project partners
Published: 16 June 2021
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Request Received: 15 October 2020
1. Who is responsible for your Windows desktop environment? Name/Role and contact details if available.
2. How many end users do you have across the University, including staff and students?
3. Approx. how many Windows end point devices do you have?
4. Approx. what % are still running on Windows 7?
5. Do you use any other operating systems such as MacOS, ChromeOS or Linux?
6. Approx. how many devices are non-Windows based?
7. Do you still use Java and Internet Explore based applications?
8. Is the University Cyber Essentials Plus accredited?
9. Who is responsible for IT Security? Name / Role and contact details if available.
Published: 16 June 2021
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Request Received: 15 October 2020
Relating to the Innovate UK Smart Grant Funding competitions for 2018, 2019 and 2020.
For each of the four UK Smart Grant Funding competitions in 2018, 2019 and 2020 please can Innovate UK provide details on judges, adjudicators or accessors used in the application evaluation process.
As part of the anonymised information please provide the expertise and history of each judge and the matching criteria used to assign judges to applications.
Please can Innovate UK also provide the base data on the numbers of applications evaluated by each judge for each of the funding competitions in 2018, 2019 and 2020.
Published: 16 June 2021
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Request Received: 28 October 2020
Please can you kindly tell me which were the successful applicants for these two calls and what were the "pass marks" for each call.
Published: 16 June 2021
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Request Received: 30 October 2020
My question relates to a £48k grant awarded to the producers of HappySelf Journal (https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=70791)
Please tell me how many journals have been distributed through this scheme to date.
Published: 16 June 2021