Recently DCC carried out an online survey of senior managers involved in decision-making on Research Data management in UK Higher Education Institutions. If you took part in it you may have already seen some of the results. As a small payback for the time that 87 people contributed to our snapshot portrait of UK universities’ development of RDM services we gave them early access to results (something we also plan to do next time round). This article is a preview of some of the key points.