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Written question asked by Lord Soames of Fletching (Conservative) on Friday, 4 December 2015, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Tuesday, 8 December 2015. It was answered by Anna Soubry (Conservative) on Monday, 14 December 2015 on behalf of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.

Agriculture: Technology

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what the (a) location and (b) budget is for each agri-tech centre in each year from 2016-17 to 2020-21.

Answer

The planned budgets (2016/17 to 2020/21) and locations of the four Centres for Agricultural Innovation are:

Centre for Crop Health and Protection (CHAP) - headquarters in York at the National AgriFood Innovation Campus in Sand Hutton

16/17

17/18

18/19

19/20

20/21

£m

6.5

4.3

4.4

0.0

0.0

Centre for Innovation Excellence in Livestock (CIEL) - headquarters in York at the National AgriFood Innovation Campus in Sand Hutton

16/17

17/18

18/19

19/20

20/21

£m

8.6

6.0

4.5

0.0

0.0

Agricultural Engineering Precision Innovation Centre (Agri-EPI) - hubs in Edinburgh, Harper Adams University (Shropshire) and Cranfield University (Bedfordshire)

16/17

17/18

18/19

19/20

20/21

£m

5.3

3.6

3.0

0.0

0.0

Centre for Agricultural Informatics (Agrimetrics) - headquarters in Harpenden (Hertfordshire) at Rothamsted Research

16/17

17/18

18/19

19/20

20/21

£m

3.2

2.9

1.8

0.0

0.0

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
18786
Session
2015-16
Transferred
Yes
Subjects
Agriculture Finance Location Technology
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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