DBIS Grant Funding Agreements for Reseach Council Funding
Dear Department for Business, Innovation and Skills,
I note the Department for Business Innovation and Skills makes grants to research councils.
Could you please release the contracts / grant funding agreements under which these payments are made?
What I am seeking are the documents which describe the terms under which the department makes these grants and what the department expects from those in receipt of them.
Regards,
--
Richard Taylor
Cambridge
http://www.rtaylor.co.uk
BIS ref: 11/1220
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Dear Mr Taylor
Please find attached <<FOI 11 1220 - Richard Taylor - Release of Research
Councils grant funding agreements - 10 10 2011.DOC>> reply to your FOI
request dated 11 September 2011.
Kind regards
BIS/Security & Information Rights Unit
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London
SW1H OET
From: Richard Taylor [[1]mailto:[FOI #85696 email]]
Sent: 11 September 2011 16:08
To: FOI Requests
Subject: Freedom of Information request - DBIS Grant Funding Agreements
for Reseach Council Funding
Dear Department for Business, Innovation and Skills,
I note the Department for Business Innovation and Skills makes
grants to research councils.
Could you please release the contracts / grant funding agreements
under which these payments are made?
What I am seeking are the documents which describe the terms under
which the department makes these grants and what the department
expects from those in receipt of them.
Regards,
--
Richard Taylor
Cambridge
[2]http://www.rtaylor.co.uk
Richard Taylor left an annotation ()
The response is technically a refusal on the grounds the information is already publicly available online.
It states:
The Department’s governance arrangements with each Research Council are covered by a Code of Practice, Financial Memorandum and Management Statement. Copies are available on the Research Councils’ public websites as detailed below:
AHRC
http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/About/Documents/Co...
http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/About/Policy/Docum...
http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/About/Policy/Docum...
ESRC
http://www.esrc.ac.uk/_images/CoP_for_Co...
http://www.esrc.ac.uk/_images/Management...
http://www.esrc.ac.uk/_images/Financial_...
EPSRC
http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/SiteCollectionDoc...
BBSRC
http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk/web/FILES/Legal/c...
MRC
http://www.mrc.ac.uk/consumption/groups/...
http://www.mrc.ac.uk/consumption/groups/...
http://www.mrc.ac.uk/consumption/groups/...
NERC
http://www.nerc.ac.uk/about/work/boards/...
http://www.nerc.ac.uk/about/work/boards/...
http://www.nerc.ac.uk/about/work/boards/...
STFC
http://www.stfc.ac.uk/resources/pdf/Code...
http://www.stfc.ac.uk/About%20STFC/65.aspx
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Richard Taylor left an annotation ()
A suggestion has been made that it will be interesting to see if there are any provisions relating to #OpenData in these documents.
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