Iain Wright – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for International Development

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Iain Wright on 2014-03-31.

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, with reference to A UK Strategy for Agricultural Technologies, how much of the £10 million provided by her Department to support the transfer of technology and new products to developing countries has been spent; and if she will make a statement.

Lynne Featherstone

No DFID funds have been spent as part of the Agri-Tech Catalyst. The selection of the projects from the first round of the Catalyst competition is on-going. The second round of the competition closes on11th June 2014.