Notice

Life Sciences Innovative Manufacturing Fund (LSIMF): privacy notice

Updated 31 October 2024

This notice sets out how we will process your personal data, and your rights. It is made under Articles 13 and/or 14 of the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR).

The purpose for which we are processing your personal data is to support our assessment of bids in the Life Sciences Innovative Manufacturing Fund (LSIMF).

For the purposes of the UKGDPR, The Department for Science Innovation and Technology (DSIT) are the Data Controller.

Your data

We will process the following personal data:

• name, job title and contact details (email addresses and telephone numbers) of lead contacts at applicant organisations
• names, job titles and contact details (email addresses and telephone numbers) of key project personnel.

Purpose

The purpose(s) for which we are processing your personal data includes:

• To enable assessment of bids in the Life Sciences Innovative Manufacturing Fund (LSIMF)
• To support monitoring of the operational delivery of the scheme
• To enable evaluation of the scheme to understand its impact and to inform future government policy
• For the prevention, investigation and detection of fraud
• To contact you as part of the appraisal of your application and to notify you that the window for submitting your application is due to expire or to request feedback.

Legal basis of processing

The legal basis for processing your personal data under Article 6 of the UK GDPR is:

1(e)Public task: Processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the data controller, which includes overseeing the proper execution of LSIMF to ensure funds are dispersed to eligible projects and companies and achieve highest value for money for the taxpayer.

Recipients

To enable appropriate processing and assessment of applications, your personal data may be shared, where necessary, with various parties to improve the government’s ability to support the Life Sciences sector, to ensure the effective assessment of applications, to enable monitoring and evaluation of the scheme, and to assist with the prevention, investigation, detection or prosecution of criminal offences, including fraud.

Data will be shared with other governmental bodies (His Majesty’s Government departments and agencies), agencies and industry experts if they are involved in assessment and proceeding monitoring period, the issuing of grant funding or to improve the government’s ability to support the Life Sciences sector. This includes, but is not limited to:

• Department for Business and Trade (DBT)
• Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
• HM Treasury (HMT)
• Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC)
• UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA)
• Cabinet Office (CO)
• National Audit Office (NAO)
• UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)
• Jeremy Benn Associates Limited (JBA)
• Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)
• Trusted external Manufacturing Experts whose expertise fall within the requirements of the public task
• The fund’s external evaluator

Jeremy Benn Associates (JBA) are contracted by UK government and manage the online platform through which candidates submit their applications. JBA host the application forms without assessing the bids and adhere to the same data retention requirements as the UK Government.

As part of our IT infrastructure, your personal data will be stored on systems provided by our data processors – Microsoft and Amazon Web Services. This does not mean we actively share your personal data with these entities; rather, they are technical service providers who host infrastructure supporting out IT systems.

Retention

The fund is open from autumn 2024 and will be made up of several application rounds according to the total investment size.

Application and assessment processing times vary, but typically take 6 months from the application date. Personal data retention aligns with customary periods for each individual application and assessment.

Automated decision making

Your personal data will not be subject to automated decision making.

International Transfers (include the relevant paras)

Your personal data will be processed in the UK.

Due to the Department’s IT Infrastructure, your personal data may be processed at data centres outside of the UK, but will remain within the European Economic Area (EEA). Your data will receive the same level of protection in the EEA as it does in the UK, through the safeguard of Adequacy Decisions.

Your rights

• You have the right to request information about how your personal data are processed, and to request a copy of that personal data.
• You have the right to request that any inaccuracies in your personal data are rectified without delay.
• You have the right to request that any incomplete personal data are completed, including by means of a supplementary statement.
• You have the right to request that your personal data are erased if there is no longer a justification for them to be processed.
• You have the right in certain circumstances (for example, where accuracy is contested) to request that the processing of your personal data is restricted.
• You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data

To exercise your rights please contact the Data Protection Officer using the contact details below.

You have the right to:

• object to the processing of your personal data
• object to the processing of your personal data where it is processed for direct marketing purposes
• lodge a complaint with the independent Information Commissioner (ICO) if you think we are not handling your data fairly or in accordance with the law

Contact us

Data Controller

The data controller for your personal data is the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) You can contact the DSIT Data Protection Officer at:

You can contact the DSIT Data Protection Officer at:

DSIT Data Protection Officer

Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
22-26 Whitehall
London
SW1A 2EG

Email dataprotection@dsit.gov.uk

If you are unhappy with the way we have handled your personal data, please write to the department’s Data Protection Officer in the first instance using the contact details above.

Please contact LSIMF@officeforlifesciences.gov.uk if you need to update the personal details of the project lead.

Data Processor

The data processor of your personal data is Jeremy Benn Associates Limited (JBA). You can contact the JBA Data Protection Officer at:

Jeremy Benn Associates Limited
1 Broughton Park
Old Lane North
Broughton
Skipton
North Yorkshire
BD23 3FD

Make a complaint

If you consider that your personal data has been misused or mishandled, you may make a complaint to the Information Commissioner, who is an independent regulator. The Information Commissioner can be contacted at:

Information Commissioner's Office

Email icocasework@ico.org.uk

Contact form https://ico.org.uk/glo...

Telephone 0303 123 1113

Textphone 01625 545 860

Any complaint to the Information Commissioner is without prejudice to your right to seek redress through the courts.

Updates to this notice

If this privacy notice changes in any way, we will place an updated version on this page. Regularly reviewing this page ensures you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we will share it with other parties. The ‘last updated’ date at the bottom of this page will also change.

If these changes affect how your personal data is processed, we will take reasonable steps to let you know.

Last updated: 17 October 2024