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.
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 |