I was under the impression that this kind of thing was already in effect.
No Home Secretary-style frivolities for us, then.
Lee Turnpenny
Musings of an oft-bemused former laboratory postdoc
I was under the impression that this kind of thing was already in effect.
No Home Secretary-style frivolities for us, then.
Lee Turnpenny 
Yeah, me too! (Having just finished my report to the Fondation pour la Recherche Medicale this morning.)
The UK is just thinking about this now? We’ve had to do this kind of reporting for a number of different government agencies for years (and years to come). The correct term is onerous. Although it keeps me employed.
It would be interesting to see this kind of scrutiny turned on the Research Councils themselves…
There are indeed various output tracking activities in individual Research Councils. I suspect this is an attempt to harmonise and go a bit further.