Agriculture: Technology

(asked on 4th December 2015) - View Source

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.


Answered by
Anna Soubry Portrait
Anna Soubry
This question was answered on 14th December 2015

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

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