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: 29 March 2021
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:
1. Contract 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 spend 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 with 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 of the information specified above including the person from with 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?
Published: 7 June 2022
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Request Received: 18 February and 27 February 2022
1. How many full-time equivalent staff members and outside consultants at Innovate UK in pre-award duties?
2. How many full-time equivalent staff members and outside consultants at Innovate UK in post-award duties?
3. How many projects awarded grants is Innovate UK currently monitoring?
4. What is the total amount of awards is Innovate UK currently dealing with?
5. What are the duties of Monitoring Officers of projects funded by Innovate UK?
6. What are the duties of Assurance Officers (finance) with regards to projects funded by Innovate UK?
7. What is the procedure at Innovate UK for closing down a project?
8. Does it include an appeal system for grant holders?
Published: 1 June 2022
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Request Received: 8 March 2022
Could you provide me with the names and percentage of UK universities with established centres for Research in the Humanities (e.g. TORCH, University of Oxford)?
Could you provide me with details of funding awarded to TORCH (University of Oxford) by the UKRI or related bodies in the following years:
2019 - 2020
2020 - 2021
2021 - 2022
2022 - 2023
Could you provide me with information on the funding outcome to TORCH (university of Oxford)? E.g. Abandoned projects, successful projects, profits made or losses incurred (if available)?
Finally, I would appreciate any information that supports continued funding for research centres and information that opposes such support.
Clarification received 15 March 2022
Please could you clarify what information you are seeking from UKRI as it is not clear what you mean by 'information that supports continued funding for research centres and information that opposes such support'.
If possible, I would like to know if there have been studies or surveys or any type of quantitative research that promotes the importance of UKRI funding. I am not a researcher, so please bear with my crude example: In 2019, 70% of projects that received UKRI funding were completed.
Question 4 is the only one I would like to be solved. Your answer to the first three questions sufficed."
Published: 1 June 2022
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Request Received: 2 February 2022
Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, please provide me with full answers to the following questions:
1. How many people, including full-time, part-time and temporary employees, are currently recorded as being based at your main office, either by having a desk or a security pass or any other metric that you use?
2. Of these, how many were recorded as having entered the building on the following days:
a. Monday 6th September 2021
b. Monday 13th December 2021
c. Monday 24th January 2022
I am sure that these numbers will be available either by checking how many door security cards were activated on the days in question, however it is also likely that your HR department would, for health and safety reasons, be keeping a tally of how many staff were visiting the office.
Published: 1 June 2022
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Request Received: 2 March 2022
I wish to make an access request under Article 15 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) for a copy of any information you keep about me, on computer or in manual form in relation to [redacted] and my Innovate UK application [redacted]
Please can you supply me with the outputs of any assessor comments or scores identifiable to this application; and any notes surrounding panel discussions.
Published: 1 June 2022
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Request Received: 17 February 2022
1. What is the target time to turn around a grant claim once it's been submitted please?
2. Is there a target for getting a Project Change Request approved?
Published: 1 June 2022
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Request Received: 20 February 2022
1. Please can you advise what the situation is if a project lead makes a complaint about a Monitoring Officer or equivalent.
2. Does he or she continue to manage the project?
3. Is there a target about how long it takes to resolve a complaint?
4. Please could you send me a copy of IUK's anti-bullying policy.
Published: 1 June 2022
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Request Received: 23 March 2022
I am trying to gain further understanding of the support of Innovate UK by sector in the UK specifically, for competitions which are "Open" - i.e. the present iteration of SMART. Therefore, I am requesting under the Freedom of Information act the following:
1) For the 2 most recent SMART ROUNDS (Innovate UK Smart Grants: October 2021 ID:1035; Innovate UK Smart Grants: August 2021 ID:963), split by upper (projects >19 months <£2M) and lower stream (projects <18 months <£500K) where possible, a breakdown of total number of applications and successful applications by "Innovation Area" - as selected at point of submission (under Applications details)
2) If possible a count of "active" reviewers for each of the listed innovation areas.
3) If (1) is not possible (for example it would take it over the time limit as you would have to log into each application to extract the "innovation area") please can I request instead a list of all Lead Organizations which have applied to each round, split by stream.
4) If (3) is not possible a breakdown of total number of applications and successful applications by company SIC code (as available from Companies House).
Published: 31 May 2022
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Request Received: 29 March 2022
For Innovate UK's Smart Grants October 2021 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: 31 May 2022
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Request received: 19 April 2022
Please refer to the following news item, a helpful briefing note, published by UKRI:
https://www.ukri.org/news/ukri-update-on-researchfish/
There is an aspect of this matter which is not covered therein, namely how it came about that your organisation decided to link up with Researchfish and Interfolio.I should be grateful if you would supply me history of this relationship starting with the original genesis of the arrangement - presumably a thread of internal emails and notes of discussions - and continuing to the present time or at least up to the time the relationship became the subject of public comment/controversy.
Published: 27 May 2022