GDI: public grants and EU research funding

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office → reported providing funding between 2019 and 2022 → Global Disinformation Index

Report date24February2023; between2019 and2022 exact period boundaries unspecified.

Reported by the cited source

Ministerial answer149420 reports GBP1999026 provided between2019 and2022 for activities outside the US. Donor-reported aggregate, not a reconciled ledger or contractual restriction on every later use of knowledge/data.

Financial details: value: 1,999,026; currency: GBP; kind: donor-reported provided funding; period: between2019 and2022; exact boundaries unknown

Payment status: donor-reported provision; individual payments unreconciled

Which legal entity: Answer uses GDI name without recipient company identifier.

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office → reported further funding in the then-current financial year → Global Disinformation Index

Then-current financial year asof24February2023; exact payment dates not supplied.

Reported by the cited source

Same answer reports a further GBP600797 in current financial year2022-2023. Do not add the separately displayed September2022 invoice row as an independent extra transfer.

Financial details: value: 600,797; currency: GBP; kind: donor-reported further funding; period: FY2022-2023 context

Payment status: donor-reported provision; recipient receipt not independently reconciled

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office → records a supplier invoice line with a 5 September 2022 GL date → Global Disinformation Index

GL accounting date only; preview updated28November2024. Not last-payment proof.

Selected September2022 row records GBP130506, GL date5September2022, identifier300,000,130,671,861 line1, supplier GLOBAL DISINFORMATION INDEX, Project Management category. GL date is not verified bank settlement, identifier not grant number, and row not allocated to either parliamentary total.

Financial details: value: 130,506; currency: GBP; kind: published ledger/invoice-line amount; period: September2022 ledger; GL date5September

Payment status: bank settlement unverified

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office → is named as a programme partner → Counter Disinformation and Media Development Programme

Programme April2016-March2023; summary published30January2025.

Retrospectively published summary identifies FCDO and Cabinet Office as programme partners. No GDI-specific grant component is identified.

European Commission → published the whole-project EU contribution → AI4TRUST, grant 101070190

Project interval; EC signature6December2022, registry last updated17June2026; not disbursement dates.

Reported by the cited source

CORDIS records EUR5950682.50 project contribution and cost. This is an aggregate project field, not GDI income or a dated payout. The separately displayed German participant contribution is included within this project, not extra funding to add.

Financial details: value: 5,950,682.5; currency: EUR; kind: published net EU project contribution; period: project1January2023-28February2026

Payment status: dated transfers unverified

European Commission → published a participant contribution of EUR 385275 → GDI Global Disinformation Index gUG (German participant)

Project1January2023-28February2026; exact participant accession/payment dates not obtained.

Reported by the cited source

CORDIS German GDI participant entry lists net EU contribution and total cost each EUR385275. The recipient is the German legal participant, not proven UK receipt, subaward or a bank transfer.

Financial details: value: 385,275; currency: EUR; kind: published net EU participant contribution; period: AI4TRUST project interval; payout dates unknown

Payment status: dated participant cash transfers unverified