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Edition 02 / 12 September 2026

A proposed photonics grant.
A withdrawn project.

A £12,530 proposal, a misspelt company name, and a separate ownership record. Following the identifiers changes what the public record allows us to say.

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THE FINDING

The checked sources do not establish a paid grant to the Centre for Integrated Photonics under project 133181. They establish conditional selection in 2017 and a later official project status of Withdrawn. The company’s row reports £0 actual spend to date; its award-offered cell is blank. T01 T02

Huawei UK’s registered control of the company is a separate organizational fact—not a money-transfer record. T03

01 / AWARD STATUS

Selection is a stage.
Not a payment.

Project 133181
Competition 1703_EE_R2_12M

The 25 July 2017 funders-panel results name the Centre for Integrated Photonics in a proposal to assess semiconductor lasers for fibre-optic telecommunications. The table assigns it £20,883 proposed costs and a £12,530 proposed grant. The qualification above the table makes selection conditional on a grant offer and other conditions. T01

The later UKRI workbook supplies the missing project identifier and status. In the version published on 3 September 2026, project 133181 has four participant rows, all with project status Withdrawn. None has a populated award-offered, cost or project-date cell. T02 T07

STATUS TRAIL — THIS IS NOT A DISBURSEMENT DIAGRAM
25 JULY 2017 / PANELConditional selection

£12,530 proposed for CIP

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SEPTEMBER 2026 / WORKBOOKProject withdrawn

Matched project 133181

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EVIDENTIARY STOPNo paid-grant claim

No executed agreement or transaction ledger obtained.

A typo that matters.

An earlier exact-name lookup did not find the company. The row actually reads The Centre for Integrated Photoncis Limited. The misspelling is in the source, not silently corrected in our download.

Its company number, 04905488, matches the Companies House record for The Centre for Integrated Photonics Limited. The competition code and project title tie the row to the 2017 proposal. This is an identifier-supported match, not a name-similarity allegation. T02 T05

A reported zero is not a blank. R30778 contains 0. P30778 is absent/blank. We preserve both, and do not turn either into a complete audit of payments across other projects.

The exact CIP row

UKRI workbook, Sheet1, Excel row 30778. Amounts in GBP.
Field / cellSource value
Project number / F133181
Company number / M04905488
Award offered / Pblank
Actual spend to date / R£0
Participant field / SActive
Project status / TWithdrawn

Column S is headed “Participant Withdrawn From Project”; its value is Active. Column T is the separate project status. We retain both fields rather than overwrite one with the other. T02

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Withdrawal is not a documented cancellation instrument.

The checked record gives neither a withdrawal date nor a reason. We did not obtain an executed grant agreement, a cancellation notice or a payment transaction ledger. “Withdrawn” is the source’s project status—not an invented account of who cancelled what or why.

02 / OWNERSHIP, SEPARATELY

A corporate link.
No upstream funding edge.

REGISTERED CORPORATE CONTROL — DIRECTION MATTERS
REGISTERED CONTROLLING COMPANY / 04295981Huawei Technologies (UK) Co., Ltd.
At least 75% of shares & votesPSC notification: 6 April 2016
CONTROLLED COMPANY / 04905488The Centre for Integrated Photonics Limited

Companies House registered control; observed on 12 September 2026. The notification date is not an acquisition date. T03 T05

What that record does—and does not—establish.

The ownership arrow runs from Huawei UK to CIP. It does not run in reverse, and it carries no grant amount.

Huawei UK’s own PSC page has a no-registrable-person/relevant-legal-entity statement, notified on 28 September 2016. That is not a statement that the company has no owners. This bounded review does not complete the ultimate-owner chain. T04

No PRC-state ownership, PLA relationship or CCP-governance edge is established by this dossier. Those are separate claims requiring separate evidence. No grant-specific party direction, military use or misconduct conclusion is made.

Companies House displays filed information and warns that it does not check its accuracy. The present display and notified date do not independently prove every day’s historical ownership.

03 / THE SAME ACRONYM TRAP

QRVCSELs is a name.
133181 is an identifier.

UKRI also has a different QRVCSELs project: 103444. Its shared acronym and similar technical description do not make it the same award.

THE SELECTED CASE

133181 / Withdrawn

Competition 1703_EE_R2_12M; feasibility-study record; four workbook participants, including CIP under its misspelt name and correct company number.

Source rows 30775–30778. £12,530 is the 2017 proposed CIP grant, not an amount recovered from an executed award.

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DO NOT MERGE

103444 / Closed

Competition 1607_MM_SEMICON_LO; collaborative R&D record. The three direct participants are IQE, Lancaster University and Sivers Photonics.

Their offered amounts total £255,470, matching the GtR funded value. CIP is not a named participant on these records. That is not an exhaustive vendor or lower-tier search.

T02 T06

The raw 133181 participant label CST Global Ltd (CRN 08731491) is not silently merged with 103444’s SIVERS PHOTONICS LIMITED (CRN SC211759). Those distinct identifiers are retained without a further corporate-identity claim. The GtR 103444 abstract itself uses feasibility-study language; identifiers and fields, not prose resemblance, control the join.

WHAT THIS EDITION CAN SAY

Three findings.
One firm boundary.

  1. Selection: the 2017 competition conditionally selected the proposal and showed £12,530 for CIP.
  2. Status: the later identifier-matched workbook marks project 133181 Withdrawn, reports £0 spend for CIP, and leaves its offer field blank.
  3. Ownership: Huawei UK is separately recorded as controlling at least 75% of CIP shares and voting rights.

These facts do not establish that a £12,530 grant was paid to CIP, Huawei UK or an ultimate parent.

This is a selected status-and-identity case, not a survey of all CIP, Huawei or UK research awards. No claim of hidden transfer, absence of every relationship, security-rule violation or wrongdoing follows from these records. Read the search boundaries.

The negative finding is specific: an advertised proposal is not a verified paid grant. Unlike the empty Duke subaward search in edition 01, the £0 here is a literal reported field—not a number invented from a nonmatch.

THE EVIDENCE, OPEN TO INSPECTION

Seven primary sources.

Original links, exact locators, supported claims and stopping points. Workbook rows are curated extracts; full third-party files are not mirrored.

T01Emerging and Enabling Technologies Round 2 — up to 12 months: competition results2017-07-25

Innovate UK

Supports: CIP appears with £20,883 proposed project costs and £12,530 proposed project grant; successful assessment is conditional on a grant offer and conditions.

Locator: PDF page 21 (printed 21), panel date at foot; table row for The Centre for Integrated Photonics Limited and qualification above table.

Limit: Panel date, not a demonstrated award-contract or payment date. The company-name row is matched independently to the workbook; the PDF supplies no company number.

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Retrieved 2026-09-12T16:04:34.030731+00:00 · HTTP 200

T02Innovate UK funded projects, FY2016–17 to present: September 2026 workbook2026-09-03

Innovate UK / UKRI

Supports: The identifier-matched CIP row is 30778, raw name Photoncis, CRN 04905488; project 133181 is Withdrawn, spend field 0, award/cost/dates absent, participant field Active. Project 103444 has three different participant rows and Closed status.

Locator: Sheet1 header row 1; E:M and N:T, rows 30775–30778 for project 133181; rows 23338–23340 for comparison project 103444. Workbook filename embeds 20260902; landing-page publication update is 3 September.

Limit: Reported dataset fields, not a bank audit. Blank offer/date/cost cells remain null. No withdrawal reason/date or cancellation instrument is supplied. Do not merge same-acronym projects or confuse the two status columns.

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Retrieved 2026-09-12T16:04:34.032279+00:00 · HTTP 200

T03The Centre for Integrated Photonics Limited — persons with significant controlUndated register

Companies House

Supports: Huawei UK is registered as controlling at least 75% of shares and voting rights; notified 6 April 2016; parent registration 4295981 resolves with leading zero to 04295981.

Locator: Company 04905488; Huawei Technologies (UK) Co., Ltd. record; Notified on, Registration number and Nature of control.

Limit: Filed information, not independent verification by Companies House. Notification date is not the acquisition date; no payment, grant direction, ultimate ownership or state/military/party control follows.

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Retrieved 2026-09-12T16:04:34.033019+00:00 · HTTP 200

T04Huawei Technologies (UK) Co., Ltd. — persons with significant controlUndated register

Companies House

Supports: The public PSC page contains a no-registrable-person/relevant-legal-entity statement.

Locator: Company 04295981; active statement, notified 28 September 2016.

Limit: A PSC-reporting statement does not mean the company has no owners and does not identify its ultimate owners. The dossier stops rather than inventing the next link.

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Retrieved 2026-09-12T16:04:34.714473+00:00 · HTTP 200

T05The Centre for Integrated Photonics Limited — company overviewUndated register

Companies House

Supports: Official legal-name and company-number reference for 04905488.

Locator: Company name and number at page heading; incorporation and company status fields.

Limit: Use company number, not name spelling alone. No personal addresses/officer profiles are republished.

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Retrieved 2026-09-12T16:04:35.006988+00:00 · HTTP 200

T06GaAs-based vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers with GaSb quantum rings — project 1034442026-07-06

UKRI Gateway to Research

Supports: A separate Closed project 103444, lead IQE, funded value £255,470 and three named participant offers; CIP is not a listed participant on this record.

Locator: Project Reference, Project Status, funding details and participant grant-offer table; data-last-updated footer.

Limit: Not proof of funding under project 133181. The abstract describes a feasibility study while project category is Collaborative R&D; shared words do not override identifiers. Not exhaustive vendor/subrecipient coverage.

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Retrieved 2026-09-12T16:05:44.620558+00:00 · HTTP 200

T07Innovate UK funded projects since 2004 — publication and update notes2026-09-03

UKRI

Supports: Publishes the exact downloaded workbook and distinguishes the historical coverage ranges; last updated 3 September 2026.

Locator: Documents: FY2016–17 to present workbook; last-updated field and dataset-analysis cautions.

Limit: A dataset title is not confirmation every row is a paid award. Read participant-specific amount/status fields and the publisher’s contextual caveats.

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Retrieved 2026-09-12T16:04:34.031858+00:00 · HTTP 200

TAKE THE EVIDENCE WITH YOU

Keep the fields.
Keep their meanings.

GBP only. Blank is not zero. Separate projects are not additive.

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