Publication of spend over £500
IFR is an independent charitable research institute funded by charitable and industry grants and grant aided by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), which is an arm’s length body of the Business Innovations and Skills Department. These transparency datasets follow Cabinet Office guidelines and reflect the expenditure of the Institute; however, this expenditure includes charitable and industry funding.
To support the UK Government's drive to improve the transparency of how public funds are used we are pleased to release details of all our expenditure over £500. Expenditure, for the purposes of this exercise, is all individual invoices, grant payments, expense payments or other such transactions that are over £500. Expenditure on paybill is excluded from the scope of these disclosures.
The data is provided in CSV format as defined by HM Treasury and is available from:
Expense Area |
Description |
FS |
Food Structure and Health |
GIT |
Integrated Biology of GI Tract |
IIA - ADMIN |
Admin |
IIA - Capital |
Capital |
IIA - CS |
Consumer Science |
IIA - EP ESI |
Economic Impact |
IIA - EP FD |
Food Databanks |
IIA - EP ME |
Microbial Ecology |
IIA - EP MG |
Model Gut |
IIA - EP NCYC |
National Collection of Yeast Cultures |
IIA - EP OTHER |
Exploitation Platforms Other |
IIA - EP SFC |
Sustainability of the Food Chain |
IIA - NEW DEV |
New Development |
IIA - OTHER |
Other IIA Science |
IIA - PAR BS |
Bioinformatics and Statistics |
IIA - PAR HNU |
Human Nutrition Unit |
IIA - PAR IMG |
Imaging |
IIA - PAR MED |
Media Laboratory |
IIA - PAR MET |
Metabolomics |
IIA - PAR MICRO |
Microscopy |
IIA - PAR PRO |
Proteomics |
IIA - SCIOPP |
Science Operations |
IIA - SYS |
Theoretical Systems Biology |
NP |
Plant Natural Products &Health |
SITE |
Spend not directly attributable to a specific science Project |
TOC |
Operations Centre |
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