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 September 2021
I am writing to request information on open letters received by UKRI in 2020
My specific questions:
1. Can you provide a list of open letters received by UKRI in 2020
2. Can you provide a list of written public responses by UKRI to open letters to UKRI received in 2020 (the response date does not matter, only if the response was written and public).
3. Can you provide a list of open letters received in 2020 that have not received a public written response from UKRI but which UKRI is aware of and has acknowledged receipt.
Published: 11 January 2022
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Request Received: 21 September 2021
I would be most grateful if you would provide me, under the Freedom of Information Act, details in respect to the contract below.
Confidential Waste
The details I require are:
• Has confidential waste being procured via tender or framework or another means?
• If a framework, could you confirm the name of the framework please?
• Actual contract values of each framework/contract (& any sub lots)
• Start date & duration of contract
• Is there an extension clause in the framework(s)/contract(s) and, if so, the duration of the extension?
• Has a decision been made yet on whether the framework(s)/contract(s) are being either extended or renewed?
• Who is the procurement officer responsible for this contract and could you provide their email address and phone number please?
• Who is the senior officer (outside of procurement) responsible for this contract and could you provide their email address and phone number please?
• Who is the current supplier?
• If your current supplier is a Facilities Management/Waste/Cleaning Company, which sub-contractor services your organisation?
Published: 11 January 2022
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Request Received: 3 November
If the information is available and you are able to share it could you please answer the following requests: For the SMART May 2021 competition, for both the <18 month (<£500k) and >18 month streams:
1. The number of applications
2. The number of successful applications
3. The success rate
4. The minimum successful score
5. The maximum successful score
6. Maximum score of failed applications
7. Average grant fund value per project
8. Total funds allocated
9. The score distributions of the applications (e.g. %(or number) of applications which scored <70, 71-75, 76-80, 81-85, 86+)
10. The count of successful projects by innovation area for each strand
I would also like to request the number of unsuccessful applications, if any, which scored above the minimum funded score, please.
Published: 7 January 2022
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Request Received: 1 November 2021
I am writing to request the following information with regard to the below Innovate UK competition to better understand the funding assessment process. For the following competition, please can you kindly provide: SMART May 2021 (Competition closed: Wednesday 25th August 2021).
1. Total number of applications
2. Total number of successful applications
3. Total number of applications ineligible for assessment
4. Total number of applications considered a resubmission of a previous application
5. Total number of successful applications which were considered a resubmission of a previous application
6. The score of the lowest scoring funded project
7. The score of the highest-scoring funded project
8. The average (mean) score of funded projects
9. The average number of Assessors indicating that they recommend a project for funding per application
10. The number of projects against which an assessor marked that they would not recommend the project for
funding11. The number of applications funded per 'Innovation area', split out by Stream 1 and 2
Published: 5 January 2022
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Request Received: 19 November 2021
I wish to submit a request to the organisation around their hosting contract(s) with 3rd party providers. The type of contract I wish to see is below:
1. Dedicated hosting- Managed environment
Not all of these will be applicable to the organisation.
For the different types of hosting services, can you provide me with the following information:
1. Type of hosting - Dedicated, Co-Location, Cloud Hosting, Other?
2. Who is the supplier of the contract? If possible can you also provide me with the name of the vendor, if applicable?
3. What is the annual contract value for each contract?
4. What type of cloud environment?
Private Cloud- a distinct and secure cloud based environment in which only the specified client can operate.
Public Cloud - where cloud services are provided in a virtualized environment, constructed using pooled shared physical resources, and accessible over a public network such as the internet.
Hybrid- integrated cloud service utilising both private and public clouds to perform distinct functions within the same organisation.
5. What is the original start date of the contract agreement? If there are more than one contract please provide me with the start date for each contract.
6. What is the actual expiry date of the contract agreement? If there are more than one contract please provide me with the expiry date for each contract.
7. When will the organisation plan to review this contract? If there are more than one contract please provide me with the review date for each contract.
8. What is the contract period in years? Please include whether the agreement has any extension periods?
9. What services are provided under the contract? Please do not put hosting information such as web hosting, file storage, hosted application. The more information the better,
10. Can you please provide me with the contract officer responsible for this contract? Complete contact details if possible name, title, contact email and number.
You may have received the same request in the past. The information sent has now expired and I required an update as soon as possible. If all the information besides the contract dates are the same, I am happy to just receive an update on the contract datesPublished: 5 January 2022
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Request Received: 29 November 2021
I am writing to make an open government request for all the information to which I am entitled under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
1. Do you have a formal IT security strategy? (Please provide a link to the strategy)
A) Yes
B) No
2. Does this strategy specifically address the monitoring of network attached device configurations to identify any malicious or non-malicious change to the device configuration?
A) Yes
B) No
C) Don't know
3. If yes to Question 2, how do you manage this identification process - is it:
A) Totally automated - all configuration changes are identified and flagged without manual intervention.
B) Semi-automated - it's a mixture of manual processes and tools that help track and identify configuration changes.
C) Mainly manual - most elements of the identification of configuration changes are manual.
4. Have you ever encountered a situation where user services have been disrupted due to an accidental/non malicious change that had been made to a device configuration?
A) Yes
B) No
C) Don't know
5. If a piece of malware was maliciously uploaded to a device on your network, how quickly do you think it would be identified and isolated?
A) Immediately
B) Within days
C) Within weeks
D) Not sure
6. How many devices do you have attached to your network that require monitoring?
A) Physical Servers: record number
B) PC's & Notebooks: record number
7. Have you ever discovered devices attached to the network that you weren't previously aware of?
A) Yes
B) No
If yes, how do you manage this identification process - is it:
A) Totally automated - all device configuration changes are identified and flagged without manual intervention.
B) Semi-automated - it's a mixture of manual processes and tools that help track and identify unplanned device configuration changes.
C) Mainly manual - most elements of the identification of unexpected device configuration changes are manual.
8. How many physical devices (IP's) do you have attached to your network that require monitoring for configuration vulnerabilities?
Record Number:
9. Have you suffered any external security attacks that have used malware on a network attached device to help breach your security measures?
A) Never
B) Not in the last 1-12 months
C) Not in the last 12-36 months
10. Have you ever experienced service disruption to users due to an accidental, non-malicious change being made to device configurations?
A) Never
B) Not in the last 1-12 months
C) Not in the last 12-36 months
11. When a scheduled audit takes place for the likes of PSN or Cyber Essentials, how likely are you to get significant numbers of audit fails relating to the status of the IT infrastructure?
A) Never
B) Occasionally
C) Frequently
D) Always
Published: 5 January 2022
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Request Received: 7 October
Could you please release to me details of any MRC funded research published findings, into human harm caused by SSRI drugs over long term prescribing to patients, covering the results period 1990 to 2020?
Clarification Received: 18 October
"Human harm" means to me both physical and mental health injury and damage and suffering caused by prescribed SSRI drugs.
I am directly asking for copies of published findings prior to 2003 AND the Gateway to Research published findings also.
Published: 4 January 2022
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Request Received: 18 October 2021
Clarification Received: 22 October 2021
I would like to request equality data in the following
1) A breakdown of UKRI staff members by ethnicity in the same way in which gender is represented in the Annual report showing pay bands for the past 3 years. Where you are unable to give data due to low numbers please clearly state this. Please disaggregate Ethnicity as I am particularly interested in the representation of Black staff members.
I am keen to understand how many Black directors (X&Y) and senior leaders (G&H) there are in UKRI.
Please provide this from the data set that was used to compile the most recent annual report and the latest data set available, but if I can only have one the same data set that was used to compile the most recent annual report, and where possible include data on both payroll employees and contractors/agency staff.
2) I would like to have the 'award value' and 'award rate by value' for the past 3 years disaggregated ethnicity so I can see the representation of Black individuals within the broader collation of minority ethnic groups
I note that this data is not in the ethnicity analysis report and is not disaggregated within the tableau data
https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/uk.research.and.innovation.ukri./viz/EDIfundingdata2021/Awardrate
Published: 4 January 2022
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Request Received: 29 October 2021
Request Clarified: 5 & 9 November 2021
I'm writing to find out whether UKRI has a position on anonymisation and research - how anonymisation and pseudonymisation apply in a research delivery context for MRC and ESRC. We would be interested in any position papers or policies that you may have, if you're able to share these.
Published: 4 January 2022
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Request Received: 15 November 2021
I am emailing today in the hopes of enquiring to the status of the Arcadia trial, in relation to drug AZD1656.
There are a number of national and international interested parties in this trial and the progress has now been thrown even more into the spotlight by the recent "Merck pill" development.
The last results came over 2 months ago, on 9th September where the public were told that the results of Phase 2 had been successful and immediate commercial discussions for licensing or fundraising for Phase 3 would begin. This had been expected as the narrative for the last year had been that commercialisation was always on the cusp and awaiting confirmation of Phase 2.
I would like to understand how this vital trial has progressed in the last 2 months and whether there is any information you are able to provide.
Published: 4 January 2022