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. FOI2023/00871: UKRI Projects Funded Over the Last 10 Years

    Request Received: 1 November 2023

    Under the FOIA, can I have a list of all the projects funded by UKRI over the last 10 years, the Challenge Director guidelines and funding therein, the demographic makeup and socio-economic makeup of the winners and applicants please.

    Clarification Received: 7 November 2023

    UKRI implements a process of portfolio grant awards. It is stated on the website that the Challenge Director of each grant sets the portfolio approach based on the Strategic objectives of UKRI and the UK government. The Challenge Director would or should have guidelines on what these strategic guidelines are, what proportion to allocate to each area of interest/investment, how to apply this policy and how to publish the same. There should be processes and guidelines to follow for the Challenge Director.

    Additional Information Requested: 8 November 2023

    May I also trouble you to confirm that the FOIA requests pertaining to the UKRI assessment processes will be made available please.

    • How a Challenge Director is chosen.

    • How a Challenge Director or grant runner is given strategic objectives

    • How the assessors are audited to ensure consistency and standards of assessment

    • How the successful applicants are chosen if not simply on assessed marks

    • Assessor guidance and training

    • The Internal UKRI review process post grant ground being completed

    • The UKRI strategic objectives and commercial objectives

    • The demographics and socio-economic background of the successful applicants

    • The Objectives of the Net Zero Directors and UKRI Objectives in this regard

    • How many grants across UKRI have gone to the same group of applicants or stakeholder who may have multiple companies

    Published: 22 January 2024

  2. FOI2023/00805: Unlocking Potential Award (Begin Strand) 2023

    Request Received: 16 October 2023

    Clarification Received: 25 November 2023

    I write to submit a freedom of information request in relation to the Innovate UK Unlocking Potential Award (Begin strand) for the 2023 competition.

    Please disclose an Excel spreadsheet with rows for each applicant in the competition (anonymized) and columns for: (1) the scores given to each applicant for each of the scored questions, (2) the overall score for each applicant, and (3) whether that applicant was successful.

    For the avoidance of doubt, I am not requesting any identifying information about any applicants - I would only like to know the relevant scores.

    Published: 22 January 2024

  3. FOI2023/00904: Follow up to FOI2023/00764 - Facilities Management Contracts

    Request Received: 17 November 2023

    Thanks for the response [to FOI2023/00764]. Please specify:

    • The number of sites for each contract

    • I understand that you cannot provide me with the full contact details, but can you at least provide me with their actual job title?

    • Adkins Bakery Ltd, Novus Environmental, Tradebe Healthcare and ADSM contracts are expired. Please provide the latest contract updates

    Published: 22 January 2024

  4. FOI2023/00984: Innovate UK Smart: June 2023

    Request Received: 12 December 2023

    For Innovate UK's Smart grants: June 2023 competition (both the <18 month (<£500k) and >18 month streams), 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 innovation area.

    12. The count of successful projects by innovation area 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.

    Published: 15 January 2024

  5. FOI2023/00879: London Weighting for UKRI PhD Stipend

    Request Received: 7 November 2023

    I would like to see the decision-making process behind the London supplement [to the UKRI PhD student stipend], such as minutes from relevant meetings, or policy documents.

    Published: 9 January 2024

  6. FOI2023/00865: REF2021 Scoring of Outputs

    Request Received: 2 November 2023

    I'm not sure if ref.ac.uk is meant to respond to FOI requests, but for the purposes of research into consistency of academic judgements I'd like to request the following:

    For the outputs submitted in UoA 4, the independent ratings of reviewers prior to consulting with one another, and the agreed rating of reviewers. I'm only interested in the correlation of ratings and how they relate to the agreed rating. There would be no information about the identity of the outputs or the identity of the reviewers.

    For example, for a set of 100 outputs with 2 reviewers, this would mean a table of 100 rows and 3 columns, the 3 columns being: rating of reviewer1, rating of reviewer2, agreed rating. From this information, nothing can be learned or inferred about individual outputs or individual reviewers.

    NO information is requested about the identity of the outputs or the identity of the reviewers.

    Published: 8 January 2024

  7. FOI2023/00724: Collective Talent Funding

    Request Received: 25 September 2023

    Could I request the following information using the Freedom of Information Act.

    For UKRI's Collective Talent Funding stream, please include the following information for each of the years, 2022-23, 2023-24 and 2024-25 (worth £599 million, £670 million and £726 million respectively)

    Please state for each financial year:

    For each year, please state how much (in millions of pounds) each research council will receive from the Collective Talent Funding Stream. For each year, please state how many PhD studentships will be funded, or have been funded (or are expected to be funded) by each research council

    For each year, please state how many fellowships will be funded by each research council - and also the length of the fellowships offered by each research council. Please also state the amount that each research council will spend on fellowships for each year.

    Please also state, for each year, how much money will be allocated to cross-council doctoral studentships (if any), and how much PhD studentships will be funded in this way.

    Published: 4 January 2024

  8. FOI2023/00744: Telephone Maintenance contract

    Request Received: 29 September 2023

    I would like to request information under the Freedom of Information Act. The information that I require relates to a specific telephone maintenance contract.

    The contract information sent by the organisation previously has now expired please can you provide me with a new update of the telephone maintenance contract:

    Please can you send me the following contract information with regards to the organisation's telephone system maintenance contract (VOIP or PBX, other) for hardware and Software maintenance and support if all the information is still the same besides the contracts dates please send just the new contract dates. It would be much appreciated. 1. Co

    ntract Type: Maintenance, Managed, shared (If so, please state orgs)

    2. Existing Supplier: If there is more than one supplier, please split each contract up individually.

    3. Annual Average Spend: The annual average spends for this contract and please provide the average spend over the past 3 years for each provider

    4. Hardware Brand: The primary hardware brand of the organisation's telephone system.

    5. Number of telephone users:

    6. Contract Duration: please include any extension periods.

    7. Contract Expiry Date: Please provide me with the day/month/year.

    8. Contract Review Date: Please provide me with the day/month/year.

    9. Application(s) running on PBX/VOIP systems: Applications that run on the actual PBX or VOIP system. E.g., Contact Centre, Communication Manager.

    10. Telephone System Type: PBX, VOIP, Lync etc

    11. Contract Description: Please provide me with a brief description of the overall service provided under this contract.

    12. Go to Market: How where these services procured, please provide me with either the tender notice or the framework reference number. Please specify if procured through other routes.

    13. Contact Detail: Of the person from within the organisation responsible for each contract full Contact details including full name, job title, direct contact number and direct email address.

    If the service support area has more than one provider for telephone maintenance, then can you please split each contract up individually for each provider.

    If the contract is a managed service or is a contract that provides more than just telephone maintenance, please can you send me all the information specified above including the person from within the organisation responsible for that particular contract.

    If the maintenance for telephone systems is maintained in-house, please can you provide me with:

    1. Number of telephone Users:

    2. Hardware Brand: The primary hardware brand of the organisation's telephone system.

    3. Application(s) running on PBX/VOIP systems: Applications that run on the actual PBX or VOIP system. E.g., Contact Centre, Communication Manager.

    4. Contact Detail: Of the person from with the organisation responsible for telephone maintenance full Contact details including full name, job title, direct contact number and direct email address.

    Also, if the contract is due to expire, please provide me with the likely outcome of the expiring contract. If this is a new contract or a new supplier, please can you provide me with a short list of suppliers that bid on this service/support contract?

    I'm happy to receive this information in an email.

    Published: 4 January 2024

  9. FOI2023/00710: IUK Loans Future Economy: Round 8

    Request Received: 20 September 2023

    Innovate UK Innovation Loans Future Economy: Round 8 (deadline 8 March 2023) I would be very grateful if you could please provide the below requested information on the above funding competition:

    1. The total number of applications submitted and the number of those that were assessed (i.e. deemed eligible)

    2. The overall number of applications awarded funding and a breakdown of how many of these were first-time applications and how many were resubmissions

    3. The average loan request of the applications successfully awarded funding

    4. The funding thresholds and average scores of successful applications

    5. The average % funding request of loan vs total R&D project cost

    6. The average loan duration and length of 1) Drawdown, 2) Extension, and 3) Repayment periods

    7. The % of submissions that progress to detailed credit committee review but subsequently do not reach loan agreement

    Published: 4 January 2024

  10. FOI2023/00802: Firewall, Anti-virus, and Enterprise Agreement

    Request Received: 16 October 2023

    I am currently embarking on a research project around Cyber Security and was hoping you could provide me with some contract information relating to following information:

    1. Standard Firewall (Network) - Firewall service protects your corporate Network from unauthorised access and other Internet security threats

    2. Anti-virus Software Application - Anti-virus software is a program or set of programs that are designed to prevent, search for, detect, and remove software viruses, and other malicious software like worms, trojans, adware, and more.

    3. Microsoft Enterprise Agreement - is a volume licensing package offered by Microsoft.

    The information I require is around the procurement side and we do not require any specifics (serial numbers, models, location) that could bring threat/harm to the organisation.
    For each of the different types of cyber security services can you please provide me with:

    1. Who is the existing supplier for this contract?
    2. What does the organisation annually spend for each of the contracts?
    3. What is the description of the services provided for each contract?
    4. Primary Brand (ONLY APPLIES TO CONTRACT 1&2)
    5. What is the expiry date of each contract?
    6. What is the start date of each contract?
    7. What is the contract duration of contract?
    8. The responsible contract officer for each of the contracts above? Full name, job title, contact number and direct email address.
    9. Number of Licenses (ONLY APPLIES TO CONTRACT 3)

    Published: 4 January 2024