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: 6 July 2022
Clarification Received: 14 July 2022
Public grant funding is a vital part of the medtech/innovation timeline, and I am currently looking into this. Could I please request UKRI funding on med-tech between 2010-2022. It would also be interesting if you could provide data on the firms which received the grants i.e. did they commercialise in the UK and go into the NHS or did they enter other global markets such as the US or the EU.
Medtech refers to medical devices (devices certified by a competent authority) as opposed to pharmaceuticals.
Published: 20 September 2022
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Request Received: 15 August 2022
My company would like to submit a freedom of information request for a list of companies that have applied for and been accepted into Innovate UK's Dynamic Purchasing System of Monitoring Service Providers. In addition, we would be interested to know details of how many other companies applied but were unsuccessful.
Published: 16 September 2022
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Request Received: 27 June 2022
It is reported in the media that an 'unnamed student at Queen Mary University London has been awarded £60,000 to for a three year project analyse 'race, puppetry and performance' in the 21st century. The funding was allocated by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, which is part of the UK Research and Innovation group.
Questions: [please answer under Freedom of Information]
Why unnamed student?
Is the student an undergraduate, a post graduate or a post doc?
Why three year project?
Why only 21st century?
On what basis was the project approved and funded?
What are the criteria laid down as the framework for the project?
What "rigorous peer review process based on excellence by relevant and diverse independent experts" was conducted?
Published: 12 September 2022
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Response Received: 22 July 2022
Clarification Received: 26 August 2022
I would like to request any details concerning inflation-related pay rises to members of the UKRI executive committee over the last year from this date, or are planned to be implemented within the next year from this date. Specifically I would like to know whether their pay has been increased in line with recent inflation, when this happened, and by how much.
The members of this committee are defined here: https://www.ukri.org/about-us/how-we-are-governed/executive-committee/
Published: 9 September 2022
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Request Received: 12 August 2022
For Innovate UK's Smart Grants January 2022 competition (both the <18 month [<£500k] and >18 month streams), please could you release the following information:
• The number of applications.
• The number of assessed applications.
• The number of successful applications.
• The success rate.
• The minimum successful score.
• The maximum successful score.
• Maximum score of failed applications.
• Average grant fund value per project.
• Average score of funded projects.
• 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).
• The count of assessed applications by innovation area.
• The count of successful projects by innovation area for each strand.
• The count of assessed applications by research category (feasibility studies, industrial research, experimental development).
• The count of successful projects by research category.
• The number of unsuccessful applications, if any, which scored above the minimum funded score.
Published: 8 September 2022
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Request Received: 9 August 2022
1. The average time taken between (a) the submission of a research funding application to your research council and (b) a grant award decision.
2. The average time taken to complete a research funding application to your research council.
3. The average time taken between (a) a grant award decision from your research council and (b) disbursement of the first instalment of funding to the recipient organisation.
Clarification received: 26 August 2022
Thank you for your reply and request for clarification. I would prefer the time taken to be in calendar days if possible, but if you only measure in working days, that would also be fine.
Published: 8 September 2022
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Request Received: 22 February 2022
I would like to submit a request for some information from the organisation, in relation to their contract's register.
The FULL contract register should display all the organisations existing/live contracts I would like the register to display the following columns/headings:
1. Contract Reference -Unique reference number associated with the contract.
2. Contract Title
3. Procurement Category -Please state the category name of the contract, I wish to know the category the contract is under.
4. Supplier Name
5. Spend (Total, Annual or contract value)
6. Contract's Duration
7. Contract's Extensions
8. Contract's Start Date
9. Contract's Expiry Date
10. Contract Description [Please provide me with as much detail as possible.]
11. Contact Owner (Person that manages the contract register)
12. CPV codes/Pro-Class Contract Data/API Contact Details
1. Can you also provide me with contact details of the person responsible for the actual contract's register or someone responsible for API? [Name, Job Title, Telephone, Email Address] At the very least provide me with their actual job title. (Meaning of API "a set of functions and procedures that allow the creation of applications which access the features or data of an operating system, application, or other service.")
IMPORTANT
1. If the organisation has a CRM system or a similar system, there should be a facility to download and extract contract data.
2. You may forward me a Weblink to a portal to download the contract register, please make sure all the organisation's contracts are provided as doing prior research I have found that most organisations have only uploaded a small portion of all their contracts.
3. For those organisations planning to make an exemption around spend, the spend information I have requested is an overall figure and I am not requesting a complete breakdown of services relating to the spend.
Please provide me with the contract's register file in an excel format.
Published: 23 August 2022
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Request Received: 12 August 2022
For Innovate UK's Smart Grants May 2021 competition (both the <18 month [<£500k] and >18 month streams), please could you release the following information:
The number of applications.
The number of assessed applications.
The number of successful applications.
The success rate.
The minimum successful score.
The maximum successful score.
Maximum score of failed applications.
Average grant fund value per project.
Average score of funded projects.
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).
The count of assessed applications by innovation area.
The count of successful projects by innovation area for each strand.
The count of assessed applications by research category (feasibility studies, industrial research, experimental development).
The count of successful projects by research category.
The number of unsuccessful applications, if any, which scored above the minimum funded score.
Published: 19 August 2022
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Request Received: 12 August 2022
For Innovate UK's Smart Grants January 2021 competition (both the <18 month [<£500k] and >18 month streams), please could you release the following information:
The number of applications.
The number of assessed applications.
The number of successful applications.
The success rate.
The minimum successful score.
The maximum successful score.
Maximum score of failed applications.
Average grant fund value per project.
Average score of funded projects.
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).
The count of assessed applications by innovation area.
The count of successful projects by innovation area for each strand.
The count of assessed applications by research category (feasibility studies, industrial research, experimental development).
The count of successful projects by research category.
The number of unsuccessful applications, if any, which scored above the minimum funded score.
Published: 19 August 2022
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Request Received: 2 August 2022
I write to make a request under the Freedom of Information Act (the FOIA Act) for the details of your Organisations financial spend on Temporary Staff (ie Manpower substitutes, Agency staff) for;
A. Financial Year 2019/20 (Apr 2019-Mar 2020) B. Financial Year 2020/21 (Apr 2020-Mar 2021) C. Financial Year 2021/22 (Apr 2021-Mar 2022)
Published: 12 August 2022