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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Response Received: 5th September
For Innovate UK's Biomedical Catalyst 2022 Round 1: Industry-led R&D, 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 (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: 16 November 2022
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Request Received: 20 September 2022
I am doing a research project investigating call-off contracts in the public sector. I have identified some potential call-off contracts awarded by UK Research & Innovation, but I can't find details of the framework agreements they were awarded from.
I have attached an Excel file that contains the information I am looking at. The last two columns ("Title of framework used" and "Contracts Finder or TED link of framework agreement") is where I am missing information - please could you fill these in.
Please note that I have identified these contracts as possible call-off contracts, so some of them might not be. Some could be, for instance, procured directly (without being called off from a framework agreement), or could be themselves notices of the establishment of a framework agreement. Therefore I would kindly ask you to specify in these incidences what kind of procurement was used in the "Title of framework used" column.
I have provided the title, description, details of the email contact from the notice, the publication date, and procedure type used to award each potential call-off, as well as a URL link to the call-off in question and a unique reference ID for each potential call-off. Please let me know if there is anything else you need to complete the request.
If you do not feel like this request could be completed in good time, please could you work down the list and do as much of a subset as you can?
Published: 15 November 2022
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Request Received: 8 August 2022
Clarification Received: 1, 9, 14 September 2022
I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information. Please could you provide me with:
A) All internal correspondence between staff on the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) branch of UKRI, including with other UKRI staff, on matters relating to research into the causes of the mass crab die-offs in the North Sea, and the request for funding to look into the issue from a research group being led by Newcastle University.
Please carry out two searches:
1 - Keywords: "dredging" AND/OR "pyridine" AND/OR "crabs"
2 - Keywords: "Newcastle" OR "Newcastle University" AND "pyridine" Date range: 1 October 2021 - present day
B) All internal correspondence between any staff from: - the NERC branch of UKRI, and @defra.gov.uk email addresses - the NERC branch of UKRI, and @cefas.co.uk email addresses on matters relating to research into the causes of the mass crab die-offs in the North Sea, and the request for funding to look into the issue from a research group being led by Newcastle University.
Please carry out a search using these search terms:
3 - Keywords: "dredging" AND/OR "pyridine" Date: 1 October 2021 - present day Please provide the information in electronic form.
For searches 1 and 3, I was seeking to acquire information about discussions had more broadly about the causes of the incident between employees in NERC, and with those in DEFRA/CEFAS.
With regards to search 2 I am looking for information about any discussions had around carrying out, or funding research, into the mass crab mortalities in Teesside.
Published: 14 November 2022
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Request Received: 6 July 2022
Please can you tell me
(a) How many Rhesus Macaques are currently housed at the Centre for Macaques?
(b) In 2021, how many Rhesus Macaques from the Centre for Macaques were supplied to external research facilities? And if possible, are you able to say what type of facilities these were? i.e Academic.
(c) What was the mortality rate for Rhesus Macaques at the Centre for Macaques in 2021?
(d) Are you able to provide me with 2021 inspection report(s) on the primates? Or do I need to contact the Home Office for this?
Published: 11 November 2022
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Request Received: 21 March 2022
1...Does UK Research and Innovation currently issue its new employees with any and or all the following....
(a)...A language guide or similar which advises employees on the most appropriate words, phrases, and terms to use when writing to and or communicating with and or referring to their colleagues and or members of the public and or the organisation's clients/customers/service users and or representatives and employees in the organisation's stakeholder and partner organisations. Typically, such a guide will outline words, terms, and phrases to avoid for whatever reason while providing more acceptable words, terms, and phrases. Such guidance could be included in a staff handbook (or similar) or it could be issued in the form of specific written advice. Alternatively, it could be included on the organisation's intranet site and or it could be issued/held digitally and or it could be included in any training/induction video/film.
(b)...A guide or similar which helps and encourages staff to promote diversity and inclusivity both in the workplace and or in their dealings with members of the public and or in their dealings with the organisation's clients/customers/service users and or in their dealings with employees in and or representatives of the organisation's stakeholders and any partner organisations. The guide will include but will not be limited to advice on best practice when it comes to diversity and or inclusivity and or anti-discrimination policies. It will encourage staff how to avoid discrimination on the grounds of race and or religion and or gender and or sexuality and or age and or disability and or political belief and or social class and or income and or social background. Such guidance could be included in a staff handbook (or similar) or it could be issued in the form of specific written advice. Alternatively, it could include on the organisation's intranet site and or it could be held / issued digitally and or it could be included in any training/induction film/video.
(c)....A guide or similar which advises staff on the importance of respecting and using a person's preferred gender pronoun. That person could be a colleague and or a member of the public and or one of the organisation's customers/clients/service users and or an employee and or representative of a stakeholder or partner organisation. Such guidance could be included in a staff handbook (or similar) or it could be issued in the form of specific written advice. Alternatively, it could be included on the organisation's intranet site and or it could be held/issued digitally and or it could be included in any training/induction film/video.
2...If you have answered yes to any part (or indeed all of question one) can you please provide copies of the guidance irrespective of the form in which it is issued.
3...Since January 1, 2019, has the organisation issued any kind of guidance (as defined in question 1 a to c) to other employees other than new recruits. If the answer is yes, can you, please provide copies of the guidance irrespective of the form in which it is issued.
Published: 11 November 2022
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Request Received: 15 August
I would like to make a FOI request on the total amount of money in GBP spent by UKRI on financing COVID-19 research to date.
Published: 11 November 2022
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Request Received: 31 March 2022
I right under the freedom of information act to request a complete copy of the application submitted by the recipients of funds awarded by Innovate UK, named as the TAG TrustNet, in press coverage of government funding for a Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) trial.
https://mediatel.co.uk/news/2022/01/13/uk-government-invests-in-blockchain-initiative-for-digital-advertising/
Under the act, I would also like access to any and all documents relating to the decision taken by Innovation UK to award this money to TAG TrustNet.
Published: 11 November 2022
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Request Received: 11 April 2022
Could we please receive the quinquennial review QQR for the MRC UKRI Centre for Virus research (CVR - University of Glasgow) for the funding Quinquennial Core Funds from the Medical Research Council 2016-2021?
Clarification received 12 April 2022
I'm interested in the QQR for the period 2016-2021. In the case where the period is covered in two QQRs i.e. "the 2015 QQR" and the "upcoming QQR" as per your email, I am interested in both.
Published: 11 November 2022
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Request Received: 29 July 2022
Please can you tell me how many of the Innovate UK Monitoring Officers are also Grant Consultants or offer 'grant consultancy' on the side/as part of their other work?
We have a come across a number and this seems like a clear conflict of interest - giving them access to Clients and confidential IP.
Published: 11 November 2022
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Request Received: 11 May 2022
I would like to have access to the research funding application for the research project 'Assessing the Unitary Patent and the Unified Patent Court', as well as to all communications between the funding body and the research project's people.
I am placing this request under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act. If some parts of the requested information cannot be disclosed due to legal reasons, the remaining parts of the relevant document(s) can still be communicated to me. ---
Clarification: 30 May
First, I am not seeking information about communications that do not relate to the research project: 'Assessing the Unitary Patent and the Unified Patent Court'.
Second, as you specify since the application for funding was made in March 2014, the request for information regards: a) the content of that application; b) all communications that followed from the moment that application was submitted until the completion of the project in June 2016, and c) all communications that the funding body had with the research project's people from the end of the project in June 2016 onwards.
For example, this could be to check the implementation of certain post-completion requirements for which the research fund was provided, e.g. a requirement to disseminate the promised research results on the basis of open access. Please note that I am not seeking access to post-completion (June 2016-onwards) communications that have to do with any remaining research funding payment and, in general, purely logistical information about transferring of funds to bank accounts, etc., is not part of the scope of my FIA request.
Published: 11 November 2022