Disallowed costs

• Estates costs - this includes: building and premises costs; basic services and utilities; research, technical and administrative staff whose time is shared across several projects and not supported by an audit record and operational costs (e.g. phone, fax, postage, photocopying, stationery - unless these can be justified within a clinical or epidemiological study)
• Charge-out costs for major facilities; departmental technical and administrative services; and use of existing equipment
• Equipment maintenance for non-Wellcome Trust-funded equipment
• Indirect costs which includes (but not exclusively limited to): general administration costs such as personnel, finance, library, and some departmental services
• Indemnity insurance (insurance cover against claims made by subjects or patients associated with a research programme)
• Redundancy costs for research staff
• Waste disposal costs, except in relation to animals (e.g. disposal of bedding, clinical waste, animal carcasses)
• Radiation protection costs
• Ethics reviews