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 October 2021
Competition Code: 2007_CRD_ASHN_BMC_2020
Project Title: Integrating Continuous Technologies Rapid Delivery of Cost Effective Biotherapeutics to Patients
Information Requested: All information held on the subject, including proof of concept system developed in previous projects; methods envisaged for critical control automation and predictive performance.
Format: Electronic copiesClarification received on 7 October 2021:
Please could you clarify what you mean by all information held on the subject (what are you referring to as the 'subject')?
The subject is the Project referred to as Integrating Continuous Technologies Rapid Delivery of Cost Effective Biotherapeutics to Patients on page 26 at this link1. I am requesting any additional information on this Project beyond what is provided by the applicants at the link above.
Regarding "proof of concept system developed in previous projects" - which previous projects are you referring to and do you have reference numbers for these projects?
Unfortunately, the previous projects are not defined in the information available at the link above. It simply states "This project builds on the proof-of-concept system developed in previous projects and adds the next required level of configurability, automation control and process intelligence." I am requesting any information on the proof-of-concept system developed in previous projects that this Project builds on.
On "methods envisaged for critical control automation and predictive performance" - please could you specify what you mean?
The link above states in the first bullet on page 27 that one of the goals of the Project is: "critical control automation and predictive performance to show real-time continuity of quality attributes and to predict consumable lifetime and changeover to avoid quality deviations (predictive maintenance)." I am requesting information related to the methods envisage to achieve this.
Published: 1 February 2022
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Request Received: 8 October 2021
'Specifically for organisations that have been awarded grants which cover a percentage of the costs of research and or development, of the quarterly payments, how many are paid on time in each 3 month period expressed as a percentage and a total number of grants?
How many payments are disputed for some reason or another, expressed as a percentage?
How many organisations fail to get paid the full initial grant awarded for any reason, expressed as a percentage and the total amount?"
Clarified on 13/14 October as follows:
In reference to time period - over the past three years
In reference to question on "How many payments are disputed for some reason or another, expressed as a percentage?" responded as follows:
Any payment that was not made on time regardless of the cause. an example would be if there were 10 companies being paid quarterly then in the year there should be 40 payments 10 in each quarter, how many were paid as par the initial quarterly schedule vs how many were not paid or delayed?
Published: 1 February 2022
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Request Received: 09 November 2021
I am requesting any information on the contribution given by Stonewall, at any time and in any form, to the drafting of your Equality, Diversity and Inclusion policy and attached documents and forms.Published: 1 February 2022
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Request Received: 23 September 2021
Thank you for your email and explanation. If I narrow my request down to only AI/Data Science, would it please be possible to determine how many applications for UKRI submitted vs funded by year (from January 2015 till the end of 2020)?
I have the totals data from their published stats. It would be very helpful to understand how many of the projects were AI.
On 24 September 2021 we sought clarification informing you that:
"The published data detailed in your request is actually from NIHR, which is not part of UKRI. UKRI is therefore not able to comment on this data. As stated in our response to your previous request (FOI2021/00395) UKRI does not hold any information on programmes which are run by NIHR, which falls under NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care.
Please could you therefore clarify which UKRI programmes you are interested in, in relation to AI/data science applications."
Clarification received 7 October 2021:
Thank you for your email. I have attached the letter in your email to me on the 16th of September (Reference: FOI2021/00395), in which it states that although the UKRI holds this data, I need to narrow my request.
My request is for the number of awards vs applications made for grant funding and the amounts applied for AI and biotechnology over the last five years.
I am asking for totals of how many of the applications made AND awarded were for AI and biotechnology projects. The data currently provided on the website in the Excel document (attached) only provides information about the funded projects, not about how many applications were made.
I am collecting this information as part of the research I am currently busy with.
Published: 1 February 2022
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Request Received: 28 October 2021
RE: Innovate UK Biomedical Catalyst 2019 round 1: Feasibility and Primer awards
I would be very grateful if you could please provide the below information on the above funding competition:
• Number of applications received
• Number of projects funded
• Average project cost and grant sizePublished: 1 February 2022
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Request Received: 24 November 2021
CA Reference code: 2509368
I would be most grateful if you would provide, under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), details in respect to the contract below. This is to help facilitate market research into those companies that have not been successful in securing this public sector contract. Please would you also acknowledge receipt of this FOI request by replying to this email within the next three working days.Gb-Swindon: Ukri-1561 Scanning Electron Microscope. The awarded tender details can be viewed here1.
Please provide the following:
• The suppliers who applied for inclusion on each framework/contract and who were unsuccessful at the PQQ & ITT stages
Insert company names here: (Please add more where applicable)• Duration of Framework/contract (Insert duration in months here):
Published: 1 February 2022
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Request Received: 26 October 2021
I'm interested in the use of Ivermectin in Covid-19 Recovery Trial(s) and the selection of treatments included in the Trial(s). Therefore, under the Freedom of Information Act legislation, I have the following questions:
1) Has Ivermectin ever been considered for addition to the Recovery Trial(s)?
2) Please send me any documents relating to why Ivermectin so far not been included in the Recovery Trial(s)?
(Note: I'm particularly interested in any summary conclusions which led to any decision not to).3) Please send me any documents you hold that consider the strong positive evidence about the use of Ivermectin as a treatment for Covid that has emerged from Systematic Reviews, Cochrane Systematic Reviews, Trials, and other evidence from across the world.
Published: 1 February 2022
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Request Received: 9 November 2021
2 requests amalgamated:
This is a Freedom of Information (FoI) request for
• Innovate UK's Biomedical Catalyst 2021: early and late stage awards Link1
• Innovate UK's Biomedical Catalyst 2020: round 1, early and late stage awards Link2Please 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 of funded projects
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
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: 1 February 2022
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Request Received: 9 January 2022
Under FOI, Please Provide:
A full copy of your file: D1024/8 - MEETING 10 DECEMBER 1985 ON AIDSPublished: 28 January 2022
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Request Received: 12 November 2021
Clarification Received: 30 November 2021
On the 7th of December 2020, you sent me a response to the above request (FOI2020/00339 [IR2020/00384]). I am now requesting that the number of unsuccessful applications that you provided is broken down by the stage at which applications were rejected (initial sift, peer review, panel review, etc.), dating back to 2011 or whenever your records were digitised, in order to keep retrieval time below the spend threshold for FOI requests.
Additionally, I am also requesting that the total number of applications is broken down by funding mode (Early Career/Standard Grants, etc.) for the same period - either back to 2005, as per my original request, or if retrieval time for manual records would exceed the spend threshold for FOI requests, to whenever these records were digitised.
Clarification:
With regards to part 1 of my request, I would ideally like the data from 2005. However, I had recently made a request for this data (ref FOI2021/00358), and in your response was advised that since records were digitised in 2011, a manual check of the records from 2005-2011 would exceed the spending threshold under Section 12 of the FOIA. However, as this was only a test case from the AHRC and not from the rest of the funding councils, I thought it best to leave my timeframe more open, should other councils have digitised their records at earlier/later dates.
With regards to part 2 of my request, I was referring to the type of funding offered. I am specifically concerned with whether grants were made for Early Career Researchers vs Standard Grants, and whether funding was offered in accordance with a specific research 'theme' or programme. As per my request, I would like this data ideally back to 2005, but should this require manual retrieval and thus engaging Section 12, then to whenever records were digitised.
Published: 26 January 2022