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. FOI2024/00533: Ethnic Minority (Black/African) Business Support Data

    Request Received: 14 June 2024

    We wish to understand and request data on Ethnic Minority (Black/African) Businesses that have been supported and or benefited from Innovate UK Business Connect (Innovate UK KTN) and Innovate UK Business Growth (Edge) government funded programmes across North West region in the last 10 yrs to support our current AfBC activities to promote inclusive economic growth and innovation.

    Please, also include data on businesses supported to expand and internationalise into the African region.

    Published: 6 September 2024

  2. FOI2024/00586: Data on Compliance and Conflict of Interest Among Monitoring Officers and Assessors

    Request Received: 1 July 2024

    I request information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

    I am interested in obtaining the following information regarding the legal compliance of Monitoring Officers and Assessors.

    Each of the below specifics requires information year-on-year since 2022, which can be provided in Excel or Word format.

    1. How many Monitoring Officers do you have registered?

    2. How many Assessors do you have registered?

    3. What percentage of your Assessors are also Monitoring Officers?

    4. What percentage of your Assessors also have a role in the KTN?

    5. What percentage of your Assessors also have roles within another firm or independently are grant bid writers?

    6. How many Monitoring Officers are registered with the FCA and on hold a government Anti-Money Laundering registration status?

    7. How many Assessors are qualified under either A1, D32/D33 or TAQA awards?

    8. What safeguards do you have in place to stop Assessors copying/keeping application text provided?

    Published: 6 September 2024

  3. FOI2024/00579: Development of Specs for UKRI-3142 EO DataHub Software Tender

    Request Received: 28 June 2024

    I would like confirmation on who was involved in the development of the specifications for the EO Data hub Tender application UKRI-3142

    Can you confirm whether Telespazio was involved in this process or not?

    Published: 4 September 2024

  4. FOI2024/00436: Follow up FOI to FOI2024/00369: EPSRC grant application extension

    Request Received: 21 May 2024

    Thank you for providing a response to my FOI request (reference number FOI2024/00369).

    The responses to my first 5 questions were very helpful, and are appreciated.

    I understand that my first additional question was subjective, and therefore falls outside the scope of the Freedom of Information Act. Therefore, l would like to rephrase my request: Can I please ask whether there was any communication from EPSRC where the grant holder (PI) for project EP/T030925/1 was informed that an extension for a different duration would have been looked at unfavourably?

    For my second additional question, I believe that the request falls within the scope of the Freedom of Information Act - I do not believe that I am asking for an opinion, commentary, or decision on a hypothetical scenario. I'm simply asking what the terms and conditions were surrounding the grant, with respect to when a no-cost extension request must be submitted by. For example, was it one month before the end of the grant?

    For the third additional question, it is helpful to know that it was possible for a further no-cost extension to be applied for, although it would have been outside standard conditions and have required exceptional circumstances for approval. Can I please ask what is considered as exceptional circumstances? I understand that this would be subjective, but I there must be some guidance surrounding it? Perhaps there are some terms and conditions that were supplied with the grant? To be clear - I am not asking for an opinion on what may/may not be considered an exceptional circumstance; I'm just asking for what guidance is provided around it.

    Published: 2 September 2024

  5. FOI2024/00335: Innovate UK Funding Awarded to Women

    Request Received: 18 April 2024

    am writing to you to make a request under the Freedom of Information Act as to the following information please.

    1. How many companies that are either a) all female founded or b) have a female director have Innovate UK awarded funding to in the last 5 years in the UK and internationally - please equate this into a percentage against male founded business for example 'Innovate UK has funded xx companies at yy amount and this equates to zz% - please break this down into sole female founded companies and then co-founded companies (where there may be one female director).

    2. How many working class or minority women has Innovate UK funded? So those outside of the university and education networks please? This should also include the figures for London and Cambridge and Oxford as separate entities - what we are seeking is to understand how the money is spread across the UK by geographic location.

    3. How much public money does this equate to in real terms - so how much money has been awarded by Innovate UK to female founded companies in the past 5 years and how has this been allocated and under what project headings - so for example Women In Innovation has awarded xxx over 5 years to yyy companies Unlocking Potential has awarded xxx amount etc.

    4. How many academics that are on the selection and funding panels are female for Innovate UK? How is DEI ensured through the selection and award processes to ensure parity and prevent against unconscious bias - please supply copies of policies and any examples that you have for policies.

    5. How is Innovate UK addressing the woeful lack of funding for women in business and innovation in the UK, please share any strategies and copies of policies that are in the public domain and that are addressing this.

    6. In total, how many women vs men has Innovate UK's funding benefitted in real terms? So Innovate UK funding has benefitted xxx women compared to yyy men over the past 5 years. Please break this down with figures across all grants and awards for the 5 year period in a table please.

    7. How many female and neurodivergent women has Innovate UK funded in the past 5 years please? This should be across all funding awards.

    8. How many people of colour has Innovate UK funded in the last 5 years please? This should be across all funding awards

    9. What are the top 5 sectors (market verticals) that Innovate UK award funds to (along with the total funds awarded)

    10. How much money in total across all grant awards has Innovate UK given out in the past 5 years please

    11. How much money has been returned and not awarded that could have been used for the sole use of female founders in the UK by Innovate UK

    Published: 2 September 2024

  6. FOI2024/00467: Trades

    Request Received: 23 May 2024

    Many lack practical skills and knowledge in trades, especially those with a university background. Under the freedom of information, it would be ideal to know how many employees at UKRI have such backgrounds and how many do not.

    Clarification Requested: 29 May 2024

    Please could you clarify which backgrounds you mean - is it trades or university or both?

    Clarification Received: 4 June 2024

    Then, I regard both, as you have highlighted, to be troublesome.

    Published: 2 September 2024

  7. FOI2024/00442: Review of data, statistics and research on sex and gender project

    Request Received: 17 May 2024

    The Gendered Organisational Practice (GOP) research cluster would like to submit a freedom of information request regarding the following research project:

    Review of data, statistics and research on sex and gender | IOE - Faculty of Education and Society - UCL - University College London1

    Specifically, we would like to receive answers to the following questions, electronically, via email:

    1. Where, when and how was the invitation to apply to do the research shared?

    2. How was the application process handled?

    3. How many teams applied?

    4. How much time passed between the call being advertised and the research team being selected?

    5. Can you explain the timeline for the research itself?

    Published: 2 September 2024

  8. FOI2024/00566: National Fraud Initiative

    Request Received: 25 June 2024

    1. When are you next going through an audit of the national fraud initiative?

    2. What current procedures do you have in place such as confirmation of payee against fraud?

    3. What is your current confirmation of payee software incumbent product & the renewal date of the contract.

    This is to identify tender opportunities.

    Published: 2 September 2024

  9. FOI2022/00105: External EDI advisory group - meeting minutes/docs

    Request received: 21 March 2022

    In 2018, UKRI created an external EDI advisory group to advise on UKRI's EDI efforts. Could you please provide the minutes of the group's meetings since its formation in 2018, including who attended the meetings. Can you also supply any policy documents created by the group, or recommendations proposed by the group since its inception?

    Published: 28 August 2024

  10. FOI2024/00691: Daresbury Laboratory Contract Information UKRI-2938

    Request received: 6 August 2024

    UKRI-2938 Security Access Control Maintenance, Reactive and Remedial Works at Daresbury Laboratory: The details we require are:

    1. Previous Suppliers who applied for inclusion on each contract and were successful & not successful at the PQQ & ITT stages.

    2. Awarded contract value at time of award, as well as Actual spend on this contract (and any sub lots), from the start of the contract to the current date

    3. Start date & duration of contract?

    4. Could you please provide a copy of the service/product specification given to all bidders for when this contract was last advertised?

    5. Is there an extension clause in the contract and, if so, the duration of the extension?

    6. Has a decision been made yet on whether the contract are being either extended or renewed?

    7. Please provide the names, Email addresses and works contact phone numbers of the following: Estates Director/Manager, Capital Manager, Sustainability Manager, Energy Manager, Procurement lead, Head of Security and Senior officer (responsible for this contract).

    Published: 28 August 2024