Nicholas Soames – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Nicholas Soames on 2015-12-04.
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.
Anna Soubry
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 |