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: 8 December 2022
Follow up to FOI2022/00366 - recognition vouchers
Would you be able to provide information on the number and value of the recognition vouchers provided to employees over this period? I.e. not payments to Edenred. There should be no commercially sensitive information in this part of my request as it strictly relates to the rewards policy within the organisation, which is obviously in the public's interest, given it is taxpayers who will be paying for these rewards and deserve to be able to scrutinise them.
The vast majority of organisations that I have requested this information from have obliged, to the extent that Edenred's commercial interests would not be further impacted by the release of the information.
Published: 1 March 2023
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Request Received: 8 November 2022
This is an information request relating to the use of Edenred for a staff rewards scheme.
Please also provide the following information, broken down by financial years 2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-22
1. The types of vouchers or gift cards that the organisation receives from Edenred, either directly or via the Crown Commercial Service. For example, Edenred lists the following vouchers and gift cards: compliments card, incentive award card, childcare vouchers https://www.edenred.co.uk/en/reward-recipients/
2. Please specify the number of each type of voucher or gift cards purchased, and the monetary value of each. For example, the department may have received 100 vouchers worth £50, 50 gift cards worth £20 each
3. Please provide the number of staff to receive each gift card or vouchers and the monetary value of the gift cards or vouchers provided. For example, 50 staff may have received £50 compliments cards, 20 civil servants may have received £20 childcare vouchers
Please also, if possible, include the following information broken down by financial years 2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-22:
4. Monthly payments to the company Edenred.
Published: 1 March 2023
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Request Received: 15 November 2022
Further to the original Enterprise Application request, the contract below has expired. Please provide the current status.
CRM Softcat
The information I'm requesting is regarding the software contracts that the organisation uses, for the following fields. Primary Customer Relationship Management Solution (CRM): For example, Salesforce, Lagan CRM, Microsoft Dynamics; software of this nature.
1. Name of Supplier: Can you please provide me with the software provider for each contract?
2. The brand of the software: Can you please provide me with the actual name of the software. Please do not provide me with the supplier name again please provide me with the actual software name.
3. Description of the contract: Can you please provide me with detailed information about this contract and please state if upgrade, maintenance and support is included. Please also list the software modules included in these contracts.
4. Number of Users/Licenses: What is the total number of user/licenses for this contract?
5. Annual Spend: What is the annual average spend for each contract?
6. Contract Duration: What is the duration of the contract please include any available extensions within the contract.
7. Contract Start Date: What is the start date of this contract? Please include month and year of the contract. DD-MM-YY or MM-YY.
8. Contract Expiry: What is the expiry date of this contract? Please include month and year of the contract. DD-MM-YY or MM-YY.
9. Contract Review Date: What is the review date of this contract? Please include month and year of the contract. If this cannot be provide please provide me estimates of when the contract is likely to be reviewed. DD-MM-YY or MM-YY.
10. Contact Details: I require the full contact details of the person within the organisation responsible for this particular software contract (name, job title, email, contact number).
Published: 1 March 2023
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Request Received: 18 November 2022
I am writing to make an open government request for all the information to which I am entitled under the Freedom of Information Act. In order to assist you with this request, I am outlining my query as specifically as possible. Please could you tell me:
1. Since 1 January 2022 (until the date this request is processed), what number of your staff members have been working from home? Please can this be broken down by month and week.
2. Since 1 January 2022 (until the date this request is answered), what number of your staff members have been working from home for three days per week or more? Please can this be broken down by month and week.
3. What is the headcount of staff employed by your organisation?
4. Since 1 January 2022 (until the date this request is answered), how many of your senior staff members have been working from home? Please can you break this down by month, week and salary band.
5. Since 1 January 2022 (until the date this request is answered), on average how many desk bookings were there at your London office per day?
6. How many members of staff could technically book a desk to work at your London office on any given day?
To clarify, this is related to UK-based staff only.
Published: 1 March 2023
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Request Received: 11 November 2022
Contract 1 - contact centre/call centre contracts
Please send me the following information for each provider:
1. Incumbent Supplier: For each of the contract(s) please can you provide me with the supplier of the contract.
2. Annual Average Spend: the annual average (over 3 years) spends for each supplier
3. Contract Expiry: the date of when the contract expires.
4. Contract Review: the date of when the contract will be reviewed.
5. Contract Description: a brief description of the services provided of the overall contract.
6. Contact Details: The person from within the organisation responsible for the contract. Please provide me with their full name, actual job title, contact number and direct email address.
7. Number of Agents; please provide me with the total number of contact centre agents.
8. Number of Sites; please can you provide me with the number of sites the contact centre covers.
9. Manufacturer of the contact centre: Who is the manufacturer of the contact centre system that you operate?
10. Busy Periods: Please state the month(s) which the contact centre is at its highest/busiest during the year. This can be based upon the number of calls. Your provider may be able to tell you quicker. E.g., JAN-MAR, APR, JUNE.
11. Do you use Microsoft Exchange 2003 as your email server? If not, then which product do you use?
12. Number of email users: Approximate number of email users across the organisations.
Please add any further comments attached to this contract if there are any changes coming to the organisation with regards to contact centres.
The second part of my request relates to the use inbound network services contracts which could relate to one of the following:
1. 0800, 0845, 0870, 0844, 0300 number
2. Routing of calls
3. Caller Identifier
4. Caller Profile- linking caller details with caller records
5. Interactive voice response (IVR)
For contract relating to the above please can you provide me with?
1. Incumbent Supplier: For each of the contract(s) please can you provide me with the supplier of the contract.
2. Annual Average Spend: the annual average (over 3 years) spends for each supplier
3. Contract Expiry: the date of when the contract expires.
4. Contract Review: the date of when the contract will be reviewed.
5. Contract Description: a brief description of the services provided of the overall contract.
6. Contact Details: The person from within the organisation responsible for the contract. Please provide me with their full name, actual job title, contact number and direct email address.
Published: 1 March 2023
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Request Received: 18 November 2022
Please may I have access to a summary of the data related to applications to STFC graduate schemes and applications for funding towards postgraduate degrees (masters, doctoral studies)
I'd ideally like to see the acceptance rates for these types of applications across different subjects and STFC facilities.
For calendar years 2018 through to 2022 please.
Published: 1 March 2023
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Request Received: 16 November 2022
Hello, I'd like to make a Freedom of Information request about information which is reference in the below screenshot. This comes from a document used in a High Court case in 2009 when 1,011 nuclear test veterans attempted to sue the Ministry of Defence for criminal negligence. As you will see from para 411, it states that Prof H John Evans a former director of the Medical Research Council, wrote a letter to Dr David James also of the MRC on January 24, 1984. He refers to having blood samples sent to MRC for analysis, the analysis was delayed, and then later carried out showing chromosomal abnormalities in some of the subjects.
My request is for:
1. A copy of this letter, in its entirety
2. Details of how many blood samples were received by Prof Evans at MRC about a year before this letter was written, in what format they were held (specimen tubes, on ice, on slides), and what subsequently happened to them, ie are they retained or destroyed, and if so, when, where and on whose instructions.
3. Any documents the MRC holds about the results of the chromosomal analysis that was undertaken, and to whom copies may have been provided.
4. If possible, and within the cost limits, an indication of whether the subjects of these tests were informed of the results.
Published: 1 March 2023
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Request received: 5 January 2023
I have examined the UKRI Competitive Funding Decisions data tables which are very helpfully published from 2015/16 on your website. However, I would also like to be sighted on the equivalent data relating to projects that were not successful.
I would therefore like to request under FOI for each Financial Year starting from 2015/16 a list of the awards/applications that were not successful, and ideally including:
• The FY decision date
• The UKRI Council
• Grant Category applied for
• Any reference
• Project title
• Award value sought
• Organisation
• Lead status
Published: 28 February 2023
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Request Received: 25 January 2023
1. How much in government grants and investment was given to NAM research for 2021 and also 2022 and how much has been earmarked for 2023. The figure given out in a Ministers response to the Shadow Minister for DEFRA was £100 million since 2004 but that equates to less than £6 million a year.
2. How much money has the government granted or invested in animal testing via grants, donations, vat relief etc. in 2021 and also 2022 and how much has been earmarked for 2023?
3. An additional question resulting from a reply that Tom Tugendhat gave to Chi Onwurah in a written answer today.
He said:
"The Government continues to actively support and fund the development and dissemination of the 3Rs. This is achieved through UK Research and Innovation who fund the National Centre for the 3Rs and research into the development of alternatives through Innovate UK, the Medical Research Council, and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council:
a. Could you provide 3 examples of how your funding has developed any kind of alternatives to animal testing because I have looked through the Innovate UK website and published papers and I can find no reference to alternatives either achieved or in their forthcoming plans.
b. And as for the Biological Sciences Research Council they say "The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) supports the continued use of animals in scientific research, but only when strict conditions are met: applicants must provide sound scientific justification in their funding application for the use of animals" I'm afraid this is not very encouraging that they have a commitment into looking at NAM's .
Clarification requested: 26 January 2023
Please could you clarify what the acronym 'NAM' means?
Clarification received on 27 January 2023: NEW APPROACH METHODOLOGIES or NON ANIMAL METHODS
Published: 24 February 2023
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Request Received: 16 January 2023
For Innovate UK's Smart Grants: July 2022 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: 13 February 2023