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: 4 January 2023
I am writing to make an open government request for all the information to which I am entitled under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
Please can you supply me with:
• The details of research projects on chemical plastic recycling that have been funded by the government
• I want the full breakdown (including grant values) as set out in the gateway, going back to the beginning of 2018
• Projects are any that involve plastic treated through gasification, pyrolysis, advanced recycling, Chemical depolymerisation solvolysis, or anything else described as advanced recycling
I would like the data provided in an excel spreadsheet.
Published: 3 April 2023
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Request Received: 20 December 2022
Please could you answer some questions about how you currently handle your spending:
Expenses
1. What finance system do you use?
2. What system do you use to manage and process your staff's expenses?
3. What is the expense submission & reimbursement process?
4. What is the current approval workflow for expense claims?
5. How long does it take to process one expense claim?
6. What is the current period of reimbursement (from submission) for staff expenses?
7. How many expense claims were made during your last financial year? And what was total value of expense claimed?
8. Can your staff submit expenses remotely?
9. Are staff able to submit claims on their mobile device via a dedicated application?
10. If you are allowed, how are you claiming VAT back on expense claims?
11. What percentage of expense claims are audited?
12. How many full-time-employees (FTEs) do you have processing expense claims?
13. Which department oversees / owns the expense processes/workflows?
14. Who is the named contact within the organisation who owns the expense process?
15. Can UK Research and Innovation procure their own services or is it a shared services centre?
Invoices
1. What system do you use for managing/processing invoices?
2. What is your current invoice process for handling supplier invoices, from receipt to when it is posted in the ERP/finance system and ready for payment?
3. How many invoices were processed during your last financial year?
4. How many FTEs (full time employees) do you have in your accounts payable team who process invoices?
5. What percentage of invoices were paid late during your last financial year?
6. What is the approval workflow for Invoices?
7. Who is the named contact within the organisation that decides which systems are upgraded each year?
8. Do you use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to scan invoices?
9. Do you currently have a PO system or a non-PO system? If you use both types - what is the percentage of PO invoices vs. non-PO invoices?
10. Are you claiming VAT on invoices? If so, how are you doing this?
11. Can UK Research and Innovation procure their own services or is it a shared services centre?
Published: 3 April 2023
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Request Received: 20 December 2022
Please advise:
1. How many staff (as measured by full-time equivalents) do you employ to work on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI)?
2. What was your spending on Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) for the financial year 2021/22 and what is the budget for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in the current financial year?
3. What was your spending on Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) training for the financial year 2021/22 and what is the budget for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) training in the current financial year?
4. How many staff working days do you estimate were lost from regular work due to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) training for the financial year 2021/22 and what is your estimate of staff working days that will be lost from regular work due to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) training during the current financial year?
Published: 3 April 2023
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Request Received: 17 January 2023
Can you email me the evaluation criteria which assessors use to evaluate Smart Grant applications please?
Published: 3 April 2023
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Request Received: 3 March 2023
For Innovate UK's Cancer Therapeutics Programme (https://www.ukri.org/news/30-million-fund-to-advance-life-changing-cancer-therapeutics/) please can you release information on the following:
1. Which competitions the programme has 'extended' the funding pot of.
2. The specific competitions/initiatives funded through this programme.
3. The number of applications funded through this programme to date.
4. The number of applications with provisional grant offers (before GOL) funded through this programme.
5. The funds spent to date from the £30mill pot.
Published: 29 March 2023
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Request Received: 19 November 2022
I am interested in obtaining a document that I was unable to find on your website.
I am looking for a report of a Medical Research Council ad hoc meeting "to examine evidence relating measles or measles vaccine to chronic gastrointestinal inflammation". This meeting took place on 23 March 1998 at the Royal College of Surgeons, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London. The image [attached] is what I assume to be the first page of this report (obtained from Andrew Wakefield misled Medical Research Council (archive.org)) and includes the names of the individuals included in the meeting.
Published: 22 March 2023
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Request Received: 14 February 2023
a. Who provides your WAN and internet connectivity and the annual spend on each?
b. Who provides your SIP trunks and what is the annual spend?
c. Who provides your WAN services, is this MPLS, SD WAN or Internet, and what is the annual spend?
d. Who provides your LAN infrastructure and what is your annual spend?
e. Who provides your WIFI infrastructure and what is your annual spend?
f. Please confirm the manufacturer(s) of your wired network core and edge switching?
g. When was your core network installed?
h. Has it been updated subsequently?
i. Who maintains your core network?
j. When is the contract renewal date?
k. Please confirm value of the initial project
l. Please confirm the value of annual support/maintenance services (in £)?
Published: 22 March 2023
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Request Received: 19 January 2023
RE: Innovate UK Smart Grants: July 2022 (Deadline 3 November 2022). (Applicants were notified of their outcomes on 13 January 2020).
I would be very grateful if you could please provide the below information on the above funding competition for both:
a) Stream 1 projects (6-18 months duration, eligible project costs between £25-£500k), and;
b) Stream 2 projects (19-36 months duration, total eligible project costs between £25K-£2M).
The information I would like to request is as follows:
1. The total number of applications submitted and the number of those that were assessed (i.e. deemed eligible for funding);
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 total number of applications within each innovation area and the number of those that were successful in each area;
4. The average grant request and project size of the applications successfully awarded funding;
5. The funding thresholds and average scores of successful applications;
6. The percentages of successful applications that were Industrial Research and Experimental Development;
7. The number of successful Industrial Research and Experimental Development projects that were (i) single applicant/partner, (ii) 2 partners, (iii) 3+ partner;
8. The total funding allocated in this competition round;
9. How many projects awarded went to project set up.
Published: 21 March 2023
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Request Received: 21 February 2023
I recently requested a copy of the Nottingham Caves shapes and accompanying descriptive text from Nottingham City Council. You can read my request and their refusal here:
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/nottingham_caves_gis_layer
In essence it was refused because the data is not theirs to release. Copyright is owned by NERC/BGS.
I'd like to make the same request to yourselves then please. Could you please release the dataset containing shapefiles and descriptive text for Nottingham's cave network?
Alternatively - if you would like, you could give Nottingham City Council permission to do the same and they would be able to release it on their online GIS tool "Insight Mapping" which would be more usable for more people and therefore preferable.
Published: 20 March 2023
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Request Received: 1 March 2023
I am making a FOI request regarding the Language Services Framework Agreement for the Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult.
I understand the published date for the last ITT was the 11 December 2019 and it should be released to the market again this year for a go live in December 2023.
1. Can the Authority confirm the retender dates of this opportunity
2. Can the Authority provide an estimated annual spend
3. Can the Authority provide a percentage breakdown between the value of Lot 1 and Lot 2
4. Can the Authority provide a percentage breakdown between face to face interpreting and remote interpreting and the number of appointments over the last 12 months
5. Can the Authority provide a list of language combinations and any international face to face locations over the last 12 months.
Published: 20 March 2023