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. FOI2025/00807: STFC Webinar Slides and Transcript

    Request Received: 10 September 2025

    Under the FOI Act, please could I have both the presentation slides and a transcript of the STFC all-staff webinar held 3 September?

    Published: 8 December 2025

  2. FOI2025/00877: IUK Creative Industries & Digital Competitions (North East Awards 2019–2025)

    Request Received: 1 October 2025

    Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I would like to request the following information:

    1. A list of all successful awards made by Innovate UK under the following competitions:

    • Creative Catalyst (including SME grants and Collaborative R&D)

    • Create Growth Programme competitions (all rounds)

    • Any Innovate UK/UKRI Investor Partnership competitions linked to the creative industries or digital sectors

    • BridgeAI competitions where the sector focus included the creative industries

    2. Please restrict the scope to awards made between 1 January 2019 and 30 September 2025 to organisations whose registered address is within the North East of England region (i.e. Tyne & Wear, Northumberland, County Durham, and Tees Valley).

    3. For each successful award, please provide:

    • Recipient organisation name

    • Project title

    • Competition name / round

    • Award amount (£)

    • Award date

    • Recipient organisation’s town/city and county

    I am not requesting any commercially sensitive technical details, business models, or personal data.

    Published: 8 December 2025

  3. FOI2025/00876: Smart Grant applications supported by Grantify UK

    Request Received: 28 September 2025

    Can you please tell me the success rate of all 'Smart Grant' applications assisted by the grant writing company, Grantify UK, in 2022, 2023 & 2024.

    If there is no recorded data on 'success rates', can you please tell me what percentage of submissions were assisted by Grantify UK.

    Published: 2 December 2025

  4. FOI2025/00692: Communication & Funding between UKRI and ARIA

    Request Received: 31 July 2025

    Following your response indicating that my original request was directed at ARIA as an organisation, I am submitting a revised request focusing on UKRI’s own involvement with ARIA.

    Under the Freedom of Information Act, I request the following:

    1. All communications (emails, meeting minutes, briefings, memos) between UKRI and ARIA staff, officials, or associated organisations concerning: The Exploring Climate Cooling programme Any projects relating to geoengineering, atmospheric intervention, or solar radiation management (SRM)

    2. Details of any funding, grants, partnerships, or contractual arrangements between UKRI and ARIA since January 2020, especially relating to climate manipulation or climate research.

    3. Internal UKRI discussions referencing ARIA’s role in experimental climate control, weather modification, or balloon-based research trials.

    Clarification Received: 13 August 2025

    1. All email correspondence (including attachments) between UKRI and ARIA, dated 1 August 2023 to 31 July 2025, containing either of the following terms:

    “Exploring Climate Cooling"

    “SPICE" (Stratospheric Particle Injection for Climate Engineering)

    This search should include all correspondence that contains these terms in any part of the email or attachment, including draft documents, internal discussions, and working papers.

    Published: 2 December 2025

  5. FOI2025/00835: Funding Allocated to Animal Experiments Involving Dogs

    Request Received: 22 September 2025

    Please provide the total amount of public funding allocated to animal experiments involving dogs for the period 2020–2024.

    Published: 1 December 2025

  6. FOI2025/00638: UKRI Business Case Summaries and Impact Assumptions for Spend Review 25

    Request Received: 11 July 2025

    1. Copies of the business case summary documents submitted by UKRI to DSIT and/or HM Treasury as part of the latest Spending Review (SR2025).

    2. Any supporting documentation detailing the economic impact assumptions or cost-benefit analyses, particularly relating to societal impacts, employment growth, and productivity.

    3. Internal or external documents explaining the modelling methodology behind such impact estimates.

    4. Correspondence between UKRI and DSIT or HMT that discusses or supports these figures

    Published: 1 December 2025

  7. FOI2025/00622: Misconduct over the last 3 years

    Request received: 08 July 2025

    Number of staff within your organisation who were formally disciplined for misconduct over the last three years (broken down by calendar year).

    I’d also like to know the outcomes of the disciplinary action e.g.

    • 14 staff dismissed

    • 12 staff issued a written warning

    • 16 staff given a final written warning

    Published: 1 December 2025

  8. EIR2025/00752: NERC/FAAM Aircraft & Private Contractor Involvement

    Request Received: 23 August 2025

    Under the Environmental Information Regulations 2004, please provide the following information held by NERC (Natural Environment Research Council) in connection with the FAAM Airborne Laboratory (BAe-146 aircraft) for the period 1 January 2022 – present:

    1. A list of all contracts, agreements, or funding arrangements involving BAE Systems, Rolls-Royce, Airbus, or European Astrotech.

    2. Copies of any grant applications or awards relating to FAAM flight campaigns where those companies were named as partners.

    3. A list of email subject lines or correspondence references (not full bodies) between NERC/UKRI staff and the above companies containing the terms “FAAM”, “SRM”, or “geoengineering.”

    Published: 1 December 2025

  9. FOI2025/00801: Trans Inclusive Culture Guidance for Museums

    Request received: 09 September 2025

    ES/X004732/1

    978-1-898489-52-8 -

    https://cultureactioneurope.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Trans-Inclusive-Culture.pdf

    To whom it may concern,

    One of your bodies has funded a report which is illegal and looks to force transgender ideology upon the UK arts and culture world. This nonsensical and biased report is being challenged legally, thankfully.

    I hereby make an FOI request in regard to your funding of this ideological and biased piece of fake ‘guidance’ which ultimately seeks to impose the opinions of a very small minority of politically driven activists.

    I would like to know:

    1. How much funding did you give?

    2. What criteria you used to decide to fund this piece of political action

    3. How did it meet the UK’s needs for “Research and Innovation”?

    4. Who agreed to it?

    5. What checks and balances were applied to ensure you aren’t wasting public funds?

    6. As it is illegal, what will you be doing to recover the wasted funds?

    7. What disciplinary action will you be taking against the staff involved in this egregious, biased and illegal waste of public money?

    Published: 1 December 2025

  10. FOI2025/00875: STFC Internship Statistics

    Request Received: 26 September 2025

    This is a request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. I am requesting the following information, covering the Science and Technology Facilities Council:

    1) The number of year in industry placement students requested, broken down by department and site

    2) The number of year in industry placement students approved, broken down by department and site

    3) The number of year in industry placement students funded by central STFC funding, broken down by department and site

    4) The number of year in industry placement students funded by any other funding source, broken down by department and site

    I would like this information for students expected to start in the 2026/27 academic year.

    Published: 1 December 2025