Freedom of information (FOI) releases from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)

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  1. FOI2025/00117: Information on the Innovate UK's Biomedical Catalyst 2024 Round 1: Industry-led R&D competition

    Request Received: 31 January 2025

    For Innovate UK's Biomedical Catalyst 2024 Round 1: Industry-led R&D competition, 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. Average grant fund value per project

    8. Average score of funded projects

    9. The count of assessed applications by technology area (advanced therapies, biosciences, preclinical technologies and drug target discovery, therapeutic and medicine development, diagnostics, medical technology and devices, precision medicine, digital health, independent living)

    10. The count of assessed applications by research category (industrial research and experimental development)

    11. The count of successful projects by research category (industrial research and experimental development)

    Published: 2 May 2025

  2. FOI2025/00361: Community/Patient Public Involvement on Research Board

    Request received: 31 March 2025

    I am conducting an FOI-based study to explore the current state of community and/or patient public involvement and engagement (PPIE) within high-level agenda setting research boards in organisations funding health research in the UK. May I please ask for the following information under the FOI act regarding both Research England and UK Research and Innovation. 

     

    1.     Does your organisation have an executive board where health research funding strategy is set?

    2.     If yes, is there a PPIE (patient public involvement engagement) representative on this board with the specific remit to provide insights into research agenda setting from the perspective of a patient with lived experience of health issues or as a member of the public/community? [I am not referring to the presence of a lay chair].

    3.     Is there a PPIE advisory structure (e.g. board, committee, panel) which provides PPIE insights to inform the work of the executive board? (not within individual funding calls- I refer to high level feedback into your research strategy meetings) Yes/no.

    4.     Concerning health research, is there a PPIE representative on any lower-level board (e.g. individual funding calls).

    5.     If yes to question 2, 3 or 4, please provide a list of members of the board and/or PPIE advisory structure with designated roles/remits (not names).

    6.     Are PPIE representatives remunerated?

    7.     Do you require PPIE representatives to do any training? If yes, please specify 

    8.     I realise that some of this information may already be available. However, I was unable to locate it. So, if it is, please provide me with a link to the data.

    Published: 1 May 2025

  3. FOI2025/00066: Biomedical Catalyst 2024 Round 1: Industry-led R&D

    Request Received: 23 January 2025

    For the Biomedical Catalyst 2024 Round 1: Industry-led R&D please can I request:

    1. The total number of submitted 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. 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 applications by innovation area.

    11. The count of successful projects by innovation area.

    12. The number of successful projects that were a consortium of 2 partners.

    13. The number of successful projects that were a consortium of 3+ partners.

    14. The number of successful projects which included a university or research partner.

    15. The number of applications which included a university or research partner.

    16. The number of 1) applications and 2) successful projects with total project cost within £100k increments.

    17. The number of submissions which got through to interview, and how many were successful

    18. The number of unsuccessful applications, if any, which scored above the minimum funded score

    Published: 29 April 2025

  4. FOI2025/00342: Taxpayer funds used for Bridge AI competition and panel selection process

    Request Received: 25 March 2025

    Dear UK Research and Innovation,

    I would be grateful for details of taxpayer funds spent on the bridge AI programme.

    https://iuk-business-connect.org.uk/programme/bridgeai/

    Specifically, on the:

    1. Direct funds for members of the bridge AI advisory group?

    2. Details of the KPIs used to determine the success of the bridge AI advisory group?

    3. Details of the basis on which individuals were selected to become members of the bridge AI advisory group, and the process by which they were recruited?

    Published: 23 April 2025

  5. FOI2025/00356: UKRI-Southeast Asia collaboration on infectious diseases #2

    Request Received: 29 March 2025

    Dear UK Research and Innovation,

    For the recent "UKRI-Southeast Asia collaboration on infectious diseases" call for which there were 93 applications, can you tell me

    1. Which UK institutions were the lead applicants for these 93 applications?

    2. How many awards are or will be made?

    3. Which UK institutions are or will be in receipt of these awards, please?

    Published: 22 April 2025

  6. FOI2025/00163: Innovate UK Council Minutes

    Request Received: 10 February 2025

    Would you please provide all the minutes of meetings - full minutes, not summaries - held by Innovate UK's council in 2024.

    Can you also provide me with a copy of Innovate UK's guidelines on publication of minutes and meeting information - I see that only one summary of a meeting held in March was published in 2024, which seems somewhat out of line compared to other research councils.

    Published: 22 April 2025

  7. FOI2025/00253: Mobile Phones within Non-Departmental Public Bodies

    Request Received: 27 February 2025

    Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I am requesting information regarding mobile phones issued to public servants within all Non-Departmental Public Bodies sponsored by your department over the past five years. Specifically, I seek the following details for each of the financial years 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23, and 2023/24:

    1. Number of Mobile Phones Issued: The total number of mobile phones issued to public servants within all Non-Departmental Public Bodies sponsored by your department during each specified financial year.

    2. Number Not Returned: The total number of mobile phones not returned to the Non-Departmental Public Bodies sponsored by your department after public servants left their employment in each specified financial year.

    3. Number Remaining Active: The total number of mobile phones that remained active (i.e., connected to a network with ongoing service) after public servants left their employment in each specified financial year, including the duration (in months) these phones remained active post-departure, if available.

    4. Costs of Phones Not Returned or Remaining Active:

    a. The total cost of handsets for mobile phones that were not returned or remained active after civil servants left, broken down by year.

    b. The total cost of data and phone call charges incurred by these mobile phones after the public servants’ departure, broken down by year.

    Published: 22 April 2025

  8. FOI2025/00383: Winners of the November 2024 IUK Smart Grant Competition

    Request Received: 8 April 2025

    Please could I request a list of the winning applicants for the Innovate UK Smart Grant November 2024 round, with results released to winners on the 28th of March 2025.

    Published: 22 April 2025

  9. FOI2025/00162: Correspondence between EPSRC/Alan Turing Institute

    Request Received: 10 February 2025

    Please could I obtain all available correspondence, in letters and emails, between the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council executive chair office and the Alan Turing Institute on the subject of Turing 2.0 and/or Turing strategy delivery in the in the last three months, so from 10/11/24 to 10/02/25.

    Published: 16 April 2025

  10. FOI2025/00179: Facilities Management Contracts

    Request Received: 12 February 2025

    You may have received the same request in the past and this information sent has now expired and I require an update as soon as possible for the following.

    I would like the organisation to review my freedom of information request below, that’s focused around contract data for services around facilities management specifically around the services below:

    1. Office and building cleaning – Service contract that is focused around office, commercial and building cleaning services.

    2. Lift service and maintenance – Service contract for lift service and maintenance.

    3. Food – Service contract that is focused around catering services.

    4. General waste services contracts – The organisation’s primary general waste service contract.

    5. Laundry services - where clothes and linen can be washed and ironed.

    Contract profile questionnaire for each type of contract:

    1. Supplier/Provider of the services

    2. Total Annual Spend – The spend should only relate to each of the service contracts listed above.

    3. A description of the services provided under this contract please includes information if other services are included under the same contract.

    4. The number of sites the contract covers

    5. [ONLY FOR LIFT CONTRACT] The Brand name of the type of lifts used by the organisation

    6. The start date of the contract

    7. The end date of the contract

    8. The duration of the contract, please include information on any extensions period.

    9. Who within the organisation is responsible for each of these contracts? name, Job Title, contact number and email address.

    Published: 16 April 2025