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: 10 July 2023
RE: IP access funds and IP audit fund - Innovateuk Edge
1. Please provide application form for the IP access grants.
2. What are the terms of the IP access grant scheme?
3. How much is allocated to the present IP access fund?
4. How much of the present IP access fund is already committed?
5. How much was committed to this IP access fund and spent in each of the last 5 years?
6. Are funds in the current IP access fund exhausted? If so, why?
7. How much was committed and spent for IP audit grants in each of the last 5 years?
Published: 2 October 2023
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Request Received: 6 July 2023
I submitted two FOI requests in 2022 which I am now using in correspondence with my MP (Nick Gibb) who has returned a letter to me from Baroness Barran which has now led me to request some simple data.
1. Total number of applicants in 2022 for studentships competing for funding.
2. Number of applicants over 60
3. Of the number of successful applicants how many were over 60.
Published: 2 October 2023
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Request Received: 22 June 2023
1. In your 2019/2020 accounts you state "As part of our commitment to sharing our data with our stakeholders and communities, we will be releasing an interactive dataset of research council-level funding information linked to the protected characteristics of age, gender, ethnicity and disability." Please could you guide me to where this is and/or send it to me if it has not been published.
2. Please could you send me your funding by illness for your financial years ending 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023. Please use the HRCS health categories Health Categories - HRCS Online<https://hrcsonline.net/health-categories/> but you may use another classification if you use something different.
Clarification received: 28 June 2023
I do not want the UKHRA reports from 2018 or that pending for 2022. As I understand your response you will send me 'newly committed spend' for the years that I have requested. I don't see any need to delay your response.
Published: 2 October 2023
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Request Received: 31 August 2023
For Innovate UK's Future Economy Investor Partnerships SME round 2 competition (for all strands- £50,000 and £300,000 for feasibility studies; £100,000 and £1 million for industrial research; £250,000 and £2 million for experimental development; and combined totals of reach strand), please could you release the following information:
1. The number of applications.
2. The number of assessed applications.
3. The number of successful applications.
4. The success rate.
5. The minimum successful score.
6. The maximum successful score.
7. Maximum score of failed applications.
8. Average grant fund value per project.
9. Average score of funded projects.
10. The score distributions of the applications (e.g. % (or number) of applications which scored <70, 70.1-75, 75.1-80, 80.1-85, 85.1-90, 90.1-95, 95.1-100).
11. The count of assessed applications by 'specific theme'.
12. The count of successful projects by 'specific theme' for each strand.
13. The count of assessed applications by research category (feasibility studies, industrial research, experimental development).
14. The count of successful projects by research category.
15. The number of unsuccessful applications, if any, which scored above the minimum funded score.
16. The number of investors involved in successful projects.
17. The number of investors involved in all submitted applications.Published: 28 September 2023
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Request received: 14 December 2022
I am writing to make a request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 for information from UKRI, in relation to Innovate UK application success rates and scores.
Applicable competitions:
I am requesting the data detailed below for all Innovate UK competitions in Competition Year 2019/20 onwards.
Data requested:
Please provide the following information (separately for each applicable competition; not aggregated):
1. Number of applications for each individual competition:
a. Total number of applications received
b. Number of applications that were in scope
c. Number of applications that were invited to interview stage (if applicable for the competition)
d. Number of applications that received an offer of funding (either following initial assessment for competitions with no interview stage, or otherwise following the interview stage)
e. Number of applications that received an offer of funding, but did not progress to a live project2. Application scores for each individual competition:
a. Breakdown of application scores, for example in groups of 5 percentage points (96-100, 91-95, 86-90, etc.)
b. Highest and lowest overall score for all applications
c. Highest and lowest score for applications that received an offer of funding
d. Highest score that did not receive an offer of funding3. Additional information for Smart Grant competitions only:
Please supply the information requested above broken down by "innovation area" on the project application form, and additionally break down applications within each innovation area into the following categories:a. 6 to 18 months in duration and single-applicant
b. 6 to 18 months in duration and collaborative
c. 19 to 36 months in duration and with project costs up to £500,000
d. 19 to 36 months in duration and with project costs over £500,000Published: 19 September 2023
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Request Received: 1 August 2023
I wish to submit a request to the organisation around their hosting contract(s) with 3rd party providers.
The type of contract I wish to see is below:
1. Dedicated hosting- Managed environment
2. Co-Location- hosting allows a business to still own their own server equipment; however, instead of storing it in their own data centre, they instead are able to store it in rented space in a colocation hosting centre.
3. Cloud Hosting- Cloud hosting services provide hosting for websites on virtual servers, which pull their computing resources from extensive underlying networks of physical web servers.
Not all of these will be applicable to the organisation.
For the different types of hosting services, can you provide me with the following information:
1. Type of hosting - Dedicated, Co-Location, Cloud Hosting, Other?
2. Who is the supplier of the contract? If possible can you also provide me with the name of the vendor, if applicable?
3. What is the annual contract value for each contract?
4. What type of cloud environment?
Private Cloud- a distinct and secure cloud based environment in which only the specified client can operate.
Public Cloud - where cloud services are provided in a virtualized environment, constructed using pooled shared physical resources, and accessible over a public network such as the internet.
Hybrid- integrated cloud service utilising both private and public clouds to perform distinct functions within the same organisation.
5. What is the original start date of the contract agreement? If there are more than one contract please provide me with the start date for each contract.
6. What is the actual expiry date of the contract agreement? If there are more than one contract please provide me with the expiry date for each contract.
7. When will the organisation plan to review this contract? If there are more than one contract please provide me with the review date for each contract.
8. What is the contract period in years? Please include whether the agreement has any extension periods?
9. What services are provided under the contract? Please do not put hosting information such as web hosting, file storage, hosted application. The more information the better,
10. Can you please provide me with the contract officer responsible for this contract? Complete contact details if possible name, title, contact email and number.
Published: 19 September 2023
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Request Received: 27 August 2023
BACKGROUND
The Coventry MP Taiwo Owatemi has called for a statutory inquiry into medical research in the 1960s on south Asian women in the city, who were given chapatis containing radioactive isotopes.
A total of 21 Indian-origin women, identified through a Coventry GP, were given the bread containing Iron-59 (an iron isotope with a gamma-beta emitter) as part of a research trial in 1969 into iron deficiency in the south Asian population.
After consuming the bread, the women were taken to the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell in Oxfordshire where their radiation levels were measured as a way of judging how much iron had been absorbed.
The women are assumed to have been recent immigrants with limited English and the few who were identified in the 1990s, when the trial first came to light, said they did not give informed consent and were not aware of the use of radioactive isotopes.
Request
Provide the consent form(s) or similar given to the women.
Published: 15 September 2023
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Request Received: 26 July 2023
Hi Research England,
I would like to make a FOI request about a Research Project please.
I can't seem to find any information on your website, perhaps I am entering the wrong information.
Project Title: Impacting Business by Design (IMbD)
Funding Awarded: Research England
Total funding: £4.9
To: Nottingham Trent University, De Montfort University and Brunel University
Dates: (I believe) 2018 - 2021
Happy with a link to the information if its online.
Published: 12 September 2023
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Request Received: 5 July 2023
[For Application FlexNIR] provide the assessor's non-disclosed statements.
Published: 12 September 2023
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Request Received: 19 July 2023
Under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I am writing to request information about the use of Media Intelligence Services by your organisation. Specifically, I would like to know:
1. Whether your organisation is currently using any Media Intelligence services.
2. If your organisation is using Media Intelligence services, what specific services are being utilised? (e.g., media monitoring, media analysis, media contacts database, etc.)
3. The name of the provider(s) of these Media Intelligence services.
4. The total cost of the contract(s) with the provider(s) of these Media Intelligence services, including any fees for additional services not covered by the original contract.
5. The overall value of the contract(s) with the provider(s) of these Media Intelligence services, including both direct costs and indirect costs (such as training, implementation, or support).
Published: 12 September 2023