From which government, NGO or Private companies do universities receive funding’ for research?

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Dear University of Southampton,

I am writing you for a Request of information, under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) on the following topics: “From which government authorities, NGO or Private companies do universities receive funding’ for research?”, a research based on information of public interest, for journalism purposes.

Can you provide information to the following questions?
1) What is the total amount that the university received in funds for research, industrial consultancy fees and/or funded researches from government, NGO or private companies in the last five financial years (from 2013 till 2017)? The information should be broken down by organization or company name, year per year (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017), in a CSV format, if possible.
2) A portfolio statement for the funds the university has investments in. If you do not have a copy of it, can you provide a list of funds and corresponding management companies? Details should be broken down year by year, for the last financial years (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017), provided in a CSV format, if possible.
3) Can you provide details of research projects (such as executive summary and details of reports’ publication, university department and researchers’ names) of projects whose funds exceed £50,000, in the same period of time (2013-2017)?

Yours faithfully,

Santino Pani

Support, University of Southampton

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Dear Santino Pani,

Freedom of Information Act 2000

Date of request: 02-02-2018 12:20:11 GMT
Due date: 02-03-2018 12:20:11 GMT
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Thank you for your request for information dated 02-02-2018 12:20:11 GMT,
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The University will endeavour to respond as soon as practicable and in any
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Question:

Dear University of Southampton, I am writing you for a Request of
information, under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) on the
following topics: “From which government authorities, NGO or Private
companies do universities receive funding’ for research?”, a research
based on information of public interest, for journalism purposes. Can you
provide information to the following questions? 1) What is the total
amount that the university received in funds for research, industrial
consultancy fees and/or funded researches from government, NGO or private
companies in the last five financial years (from 2013 till 2017)? The
information should be broken down by organization or company name, year
per year (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017), in a CSV format, if possible. 2)
A portfolio statement for the funds the university has investments in. If
you do not have a copy of it, can you provide a list of funds and
corresponding management companies? Details should be broken down year by
year, for the last financial years (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017),
provided in a CSV format, if possible. 3) Can you provide details of
research projects (such as executive summary and details of reports’
publication, university department and researchers’ names) of projects
whose funds exceed £50,000, in the same period of time (2013-2017)? Yours
faithfully, Santino Pani

Yours sincerely,

Freedom of Information Office

email: [1][University of Southampton request email]

 
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Dear FOI Reviewer, University of Southampton,

My name is Santino Pani. I am a journalist, and I am conducting a research about funds that universities receive from GOV, NGO, and/or private companies. This research is going to be published in a few months in a newspaper, therefore it is of public interest.
I made a request for information, under the FOIA 2000, to your university on the 2nd of February, and your university had to respond within 20 working days, and not later than the 2nd of March.
Till today I didn’t receive any information from you, and now you are almost one month overdue in responding it, and you are not complying with the law obligations.
I am asking therefore to process it through your internal reviewer, before I take a further step asking the Information Commissioner to start an investigation on your university.
I resume the questions I asked you, and at this stage I don’t accept any excuse or refusal, as your complete silence shows a complete negligence and lack of transparency, and your action (or to better say, un-action) is unacceptable.
Please answer to the following questions:
1) What is the total amount that the university received in funds for research, industrial consultancy fees and/or funded researches from government, NGO or private companies in the last five financial years (from 2013 till 2017)? The information should be broken down by organization or company name, year per year (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017), in a xlsx spreadsheet format, or equivalent.
2) A portfolio statement for the funds the university has investments in. If you do not have a copy of it, can you provide a list of funds and corresponding management companies? Details should be broken down year by year, for the last financial years (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017), provided in a xlsx spreadsheet format, or equivalent.
3) Can you provide details of research projects (such as executive summary and details of reports’ publication, university department and researchers’ names) of projects whose funds exceed £50,000, in the same period of time (2013-2017)?
Now by law you have to respond to this request within 20 days, and not later than the 30th of April.
After this date I will ask a formal request to the Information Commissioner.

Yours sincerely,

Santino Pani