UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology
The UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology describes itself as a strategic delivery partner for the Natural Environment Research Council, part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)*. It says it runs "national capability programmes, funded by the Natural Environment Research Council, part of UK Research and Innovation"*.


On 3 March 2021 UKRI wrote "UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) became an independent body and autonomous from UKRI and NERC on 1st December 2019 and therefore should now be handling and responding to any FOI requests independently." *


The status of this body in connection with the Freedom of Information Act and the Environmental Information Regulations is unclear, we list it as it appears to have the character of a public body and appears to be substantially publicly funded. 


Previously known as The Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, the body was  formed in 2000 through a merger of four Natural Environment Research Council terrestrial and freshwater research institutes: The Institute of Hydrology; The Institute of Terrestrial Ecology; The Institute of Freshwater Ecology and The Institute of Virology and Environmental Microbiology.