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: 22 March 2020
Recently when walking around a local outdoor recreational and area known as Stretford Meadows in Urmston, Manchester, I noticed pipes sticking out of the ground, some have regulators and some are recessed into manholes. Some of them have taps on top maybe for a gas monitor. Some have cowl/chimneys on top of them. This peaked my interest so I am reaching out to see if the BGS has any information on Stretford Meadows which could explain what these things are or any otherwise unknown historic use of the area. There is next to no information on Google, the only info can find is that it used to be a former tip called 'Lesley Road Landfill Site' and some reference to radioactive waste from parliament in the 1970's https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/written-answers/1978/jun/29/radioactive-wastelesley-road-stretford
Location is here:
https://gridreferencefinder.com?gr=SJ7883693923|Point_s_C|1&t=Point%20C&v=rAny info you can provide would be great, the more data the better.
Published: 28 July 2021
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Request Received: 19 July 2021
I would like to request information on how many staff from the organisations under the UKRI umbrella furloughed staff from April 2020 until July 2021, for any period between these dates, these organisations include ALL those under UKRI, including but exclusively,
Question 1 - STFC
Question 2 - InnovateUK
Question 3 - UKRI
Question 4 - EPSRC
Question 5 - Was anyone reemployed after leaving the organisation, if their new role had not started and then furloughed?
Published: 28 July 2021
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Request Received: 25 May 2021
Sareum Holdings - Investigating the therapeutic potential of TYK2 / JAK1 inhibitor SDC-1801 in severe phase Covid-19
The captioned UKRI funded study is described as 'Collaborative R&D'. Would you please confirm the identities of all parties involved in the collaboration.
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=83721
Published: 26 July 2021
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Request Received: 12 May 2021
We are exploring the use of hybrid cloud within public sector organisations in line with the Government Digital Service's (GDS) guidance on 'public sector use of the Public Cloud'. We would like to ascertain whether the cloud-first policy was fit for purpose and what challenges, if any, have arisen when outlining and implementing your cloud strategy.
Please could you provide me with responses to the following questions via electronic copies. If the request is unclear, I would be grateful if you could contact me. If any of this information is already in the public domain, please can you direct me to it, with page references and URLs if necessary. Please could you confirm you have received this request and I look forward to receiving your responses within the required 20 days of receipt.
See attached document for FOI questions.
Published: 21 July 2021
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Request Received: 29 June 2021
I would like to request details on the annual budget for Smart Grants/Open Competition for FY 2021, 2020 and 2019.
Published: 16 July 2021
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Request Received: 18 March 2020
Could I have this file updated please?
Thanks.
________________________________________(refers to an update of the following:)
The values of the column "ProjectCategory" in the excel files provides the names listed on the GtR website not the name of the call.
Therefore, I would like to have the UKRI projects with the call. As mentioned, Grants on the Web provides the call name for each EPSRC award, but there's no way I can download all that information.Published: 15 July 2021
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Request Received: 25 March 2020
Information requested:
1) scoring criteria for the Smart Grants competition October 2019,
2) minimum scoring given to a successful applicant (Smart Grants competition October 2019),
3) maximum scoring given to a successful applicant (Smart Grants competition October 2019).
Published: 15 July 2021
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Request Received: 24 July 2020
I am making this request under the freedom of information act to ask for the following information:
Can we get a detailed breakdown by ethnicity of all PHD funded studentships offered by the seven research councils you represent, for each of the following five academic years: a) 2014/2015 B) 2015/16 C) 2016/17 D) 2017/18 E)2018/19
When referring to a breakdown, this should include figures for each of the following categories:
White
• English / Welsh / Scottish / Northern Irish / British
• Irish
• Gypsy or Irish Traveler
• Any other White backgroundMixed / Multiple ethnic groups
• White and Black Caribbean
• White and Black African
• White and Asian
• Any other Mixed / Multiple ethnic backgroundAsian / Asian British
• Indian
• Pakistani
• Bangladeshi
• Chinese
• Any other Asian backgroundBlack / African / Caribbean / Black British
• African
• Caribbean
• Any other Black / African / Caribbean backgroundOther ethnic group
• Arab
• Any other ethnic groupPublished: 15 July 2021
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Request Received: 22 June 2020
Req. is for Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
I want 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
2. Contract Title
3. Procurement Category
4. Supplier Name
5. Spend (Total or Annual)
6. Contract Duration
7. Contract Extensions
8. Contract Starting Date
9. Expiration Date
10. Contract Description [Please provide me with as much detail as possible.]
11. Contact Owner (Full contact details if possible.)
12. CPV codes/ProClass
IMPORTANT
1. 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.
2. If the organisation has a CRM system or a similar system, there should be a facility to download and extract contract data.
3. You may forward me a Weblink to a portal to download the contract register, please make sure all of the organisation's contracts are provided as doing prior research I have found that most organisations have only uploaded a small portion of all of their contracts.
Please do not think that this is the only information I require if you could provide me with more information that would be great.
Contract Data/API Contact Details
13. 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.")
Published: 15 July 2021
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Request Received: 3 March 2020
I am looking for some assistance with your organisation's Spend/Transparency data, available on the following weblink: https://www.ukri.org/about-us/policies-and-standards/transparency/
There appears to be no file available for the month of Dec 2019.
Could you advise when the file will be made available to view online? Would it be possible for you to email me a copy of the Dec 2019 file please?
Published: 15 July 2021