Life Sciences: Northern Ireland
(asked on 17th March 2025) - View Source
Question to the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology:
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, Pursuant to the Answer of 10 February 2025 to Question 28458 on Life Sciences: Northern Ireland, what the geographical spread was of the projects that received funding up to the summer of 2024.
Answered by
Feryal Clark
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)
This question was answered on 21st March 2025
The Life and Health Sciences Launchpad in Northern Ireland has so far funded 32 business-led projects. These were in the following local authorities:
- Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon (1 project)
- Antrim and Newtownabbey (1 project)
- Ards and North Down (1 project)
- Belfast (18 projects)
- Causeway Coast and Glens (1 project)
- Derry City and Strabane (2 project)
- Lisburn and Castlereagh (3 projects)
- Mid Ulster (2 projects)
- Mid and East Antrim (3 projects)