AGRICULTURE: TECHNOLOGY
Sir Nicholas Soames: 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, Minister for Small Business, Industry and Enterprise: 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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