Disclosure log
Every clearance the Disclosure Review Board has issued for this website, what revision it produced, and how much was withheld from it.
This page exists because a company that publishes a redaction policy and then does not publish its redactions has published nothing. Twenty-one clearances are listed. It does not say what the withheld material was, and it is not going to.
Clearance register
Sortable and filterable. The revision figure is the public revision, not the internal one; internal revisions are not published and there is no timetable for publishing them.
| Reference | Cleared | Applies to | Public revision | Withheld | Nature of the withheld material |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DRB-2026-0388 | 31 Aug 2026 | Medicine database page | 22 of 41 | Four sections and two tables | Withheld material concerns a compound not disclosed on this site. |
| DRB-2026-0417 | 31 Jul 2026 | Home page | 12 of 41 | Two sections | Withheld material concerns unannounced partnering discussions. |
| DRB-2026-0421 | 24 Jul 2026 | About Baxtra | 9 of 41 | One section | Withheld material concerns individual staff identification. |
| DRB-2026-0428 | 31 Aug 2026 | Pipeline | 12 of 41 | Two sections and one table | Withheld material concerns Programme 9, which is not described publicly. |
| DRB-2026-0433 | 31 Jul 2026 | Our science | 14 of 41 | Three sections | Withheld material concerns unpublished chemical series. |
| DRB-2026-0441 | 31 Jul 2026 | Therapeutic areas | 8 of 41 | One section | Withheld material concerns a tenth area under evaluation at the time of clearance. |
| DRB-2026-0452 | 29 Aug 2026 | Biocontainment | 17 of 41 | Five sections and two figures | Withheld material concerns physical security arrangements. This is the most heavily redacted page on the site and it will stay that way. |
| DRB-2026-0460 | 18 Jul 2026 | Surgical technology | 11 of 41 | Two sections | Withheld material concerns supplier identities. |
| DRB-2026-0500 | 31 Aug 2026 | Default reference | 1 of 1 | Not applicable | A placeholder reference used where a page has not yet been through its own clearance. If you see it on a live page, that is a defect and we would like to know. |
| DRB-2026-0604 | 31 Aug 2026 | Document library | 1 of 3 | Nothing | — |
| DRB-2026-0621 | 31 Aug 2026 | Accessibility | 2 of 5 | Nothing | — |
| DRB-2026-0628 | 31 Aug 2026 | Frequently asked questions | 4 of 9 | Two questions | Both withheld questions concern the August 2026 event. |
| DRB-2026-0631 | 31 Aug 2026 | Glossary | 3 of 6 | Nothing | — |
| DRB-2026-0635 | 31 Aug 2026 | Study finder | 2 of 7 | One section | Withheld material concerns a study not registered at the time of clearance. |
| DRB-2026-0637 | 31 Aug 2026 | Publications | 2 of 4 | Nothing | — |
| DRB-2026-0640 | 31 Aug 2026 | Careers | 1 of 2 | Nothing | — |
| DRB-2026-0642 | 31 Aug 2026 | Media resources | 1 of 3 | Nothing | — |
| DRB-2026-0645 | 31 Aug 2026 | Search | 1 of 2 | Nothing | — |
| DRB-2026-0648 | 31 Aug 2026 | Disease atlas | 1 of 2 | Nothing | — |
| DRB-2026-0651 | 31 Aug 2026 | Company timeline | 1 of 4 | Nothing | — |
| DRB-2026-0655 | 31 Aug 2026 | Disclosure log | 1 of 1 | Nothing | This page. It would be absurd to redact it. |
The process, in five steps
1. A draft is submitted
Anybody in the organisation may submit material for public release. Most public material originates with the team that owns the subject rather than with a communications function, which is why the tone across this site varies more than it would if one person had written all of it.
2. Four reviews run in parallel
Scientific accuracy, regulatory compliance, biosecurity, and legal. Any one of the four can hold a document indefinitely and none of them has to persuade the others. A hold does not need to be justified to the author.
3. Redaction, not rewriting
Where material cannot be released the board removes it rather than paraphrasing it into something releasable. This is why cleared revisions sometimes read badly: the paragraph before a transition has gone and the transition was not rewritten to cover the gap.
4. The count is recorded
The number of withheld sections is recorded and published. The content is not, and neither is the reason. We are aware that a count without a reason is a limited form of transparency. It is more than a count of zero.
5. A revision number is issued
Public revisions of the same material differ. A statement present in revision 8 may have been withheld from revision 11, or the reverse. If you cite us, cite the revision.
What the board will not do
It will not clear material that describes containment security arrangements, identifies individual staff below officer level, describes an undisclosed programme, or characterises the August 2026 event beyond the published statement. These are standing exclusions and are not reviewed case by case.
Asking for withheld material
Requests go to disclosure@baxtra.pages.dev. Cite the reference and the revision. You will get an acknowledgement within five working days and a decision within twenty.
Most are refused. In the period covered by this log, thirty-one requests were received, four were granted in full, six were granted in part, and twenty-one were refused. Of the refusals, fourteen concerned biosecurity, four concerned individual identification, and three concerned the August event. We do not publish the requests or the identity of requesters.
A refusal is not appealable to anybody inside the company, because an internal appeal against an internal board is theatre. If you believe material is being withheld improperly, the substantive route is the relevant regulator, and we would rather you used it than wrote to us twice.
Please do not send patient-identifiable information to this address, and never in an unencrypted email.
Twenty-six documents, each with its own clearance
Every document in the library states its own reference, revision and withheld count on its last page. The register above covers website pages only.