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INFORMATION COMPLIANCE TEAM
University Offices, Wellington Square, Oxford OX1 2JD
Ref. FOI/20201025/03
19 November 2020
Reply to request for information under the Freedom of Information Act
Your ref
Email of 25 October 2020
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1. A breakdown of all funding (including all financial support, grants, donations, etc.) that
has been received by the University of Oxford and the Jenner institute relating to ChAdOx
vaccine platform, from the earliest date for which information is available to the present day.
Please include:
1A. the grant number (if available) and date.
1B. Please break funding down into 1) funding from public (governmental) bodies, 2) private
entities, and 3) philanthropies/charitable bodies.
1C. Please include the full name of the funding body.
1D. Please specify amounts in GBP.
Relevant keywords for such funding may include: ChAdOx1, ChAdOx2, VTP500.
2. What is the amount of grant funding from government entities (such as the Medical
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Research Council, or other research funders) that the University of Oxford and the Jenner
Institute has received, since 1 January 2020, for projects relating to the development of the
ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine? Please provide a breakdown of funding which includes the grant
number (if available) and date and provide the full name of the funding body. Please specify
amounts in GBP. Relevant keywords for such funding may include: AZD12222, ChAdOx1
nCoV-19, ChAdOx1, Oxford (COVID-19) vaccine, ChAdOx1 trials, SARS-COV-2 vaccine,
VTP500.
3. Please specify the amount that the University of Oxford and the Jenner Institute has
received from AstraZeneca, since 1 January 2020, for projects relating to the development of
the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine? Please provide a breakdown of funding giving the relevant
dates and specifying amounts in GBP. Relevant keywords for such funding may include:
AZD12222, ChAdOx1 nCoV-19, ChAdOx1, Oxford (COVID-19) vaccine, ChAdOx1 trials, SARS-
COV-2 vaccine, VTP500.
Dear Sarai Keestra,
I write in reply to your email to 25 October 2020, requesting the information shown above.
Item 1
We will not comply with this request in its current form, as we estimate that the time required to determine
whether the information requested is held, and to locate, retrieve and extract it, would exceed the maximum
amount of time a public authority is required to spend on a single request, namely, 18 hours.
The research covered by the request goes back over 10 years and involves a large number of investigators
and research teams. As a result, the information requested is not readily available from a single system, file or
set of files, but would need to be collected manually from different teams or individuals, and from information
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held on a number of different systems and files. it is taking time to locate and extract the information. We
apologise for the delay and hope to be able to provide the information no later than 11 December.
For these reasons, we are refusing your request under section 12 of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
Section 12 allows a public authority to refuse a request for information if the authority estimates that the cost
of complying with it would exceed the ‘appropriate limit’ prescribed in the Freedom of Information and Data
Protection (Appropriate Limit and Fees) Regulations 2004 (the ‘Regulations’). The appropriate limit for
universities is £450, which, because the Regulations fix staff costs at £25 an hour, corresponds to a time limit
of 18 hours or just over two working days.
Item 2
The table below shows the funding received from charities as well as public sector bodies.
Funder
Funder ref
Amount (£)
Start date
Coalition for Epidemic
RROX2001
272,286.00
13/01/2020
Preparedness Innovations
Medical Research Council
MC_PC_19055
2,174,847.97
01/01/2020
Department of Health and
COV19 OxfordVacc-01
31,179,621.00
01/01/2020
Social Care
Wellcome Trust
220991/Z/20/Z
1,217,834.78
01/07/2020
Chinese Academy of Medical
Mapping the human immune
68,106.34
01/03/2020
Sciences
response post-vaccination with
ChAdOx1 nCoV-19
Item 3
I confirm that the University holds information that falls within the scope of this request. However, we are not
yet in a position to respond, as we first need to consult Astra Zeneca in order to determine whether they
consider any of the information to be exempt from disclosure. This will be done in accordance with section 3
of the
Code of Practice on Freedom of Information issued under section 45 of the FOIA.
INTERNAL REVIEW
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THE INFORMATION COMMISSIONER
If, after the internal review, you are still dissatisfied, you have the right under FOIA to apply to the Information
Commissioner for a decision as to whether your request has been dealt with in accordance with the FOIA. You
can do this online using the
Information Commissioner’s complaints portal.
Yours sincerely
Information Compliance Team