Department for Business, Innovation and Skills written question – answered at on 17 October 2014.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much funding from the (a) research councils and (b) Technology Strategy Board was allocated to agricultural research in the financial years 2005-06 to 2013-14.
The Department of Business, Innovation and Skills’ funding for agricultural research is through the UK Research Councils and Innovate UK (formerly TSB) as per the figures given below:
Research Council funding for agriculture research:
| £k | ||||||||
Council | 2005-06 | 2006-07 | 2007-08 | 2008-09 | 2009-10 | 2010-11 | 2011-12 | 2012-13 | 2013-14 |
58,200 | 67,100 | 71,200 | 75,200 | 83,800 | 89,600 | 88,200 | 91,600 | 89,200 | |
250 | 2,221 | 4,168 | 4,832 | 5,166 | 4,526 | 2,883 | 3,494 | 3,551 | |
3,228 | 2,668 | 3,875 | 4,732 | 6,508 | 13,626 | 7,540 | 20,149 | 18,151 | |
Total | 61,428 | 69,768 | 79,243 | 84,764 | 95,474 | 107,752 | 98,623 | 115,243 | 110,902 |
Innovate UK’s funding for agriculture research:
£ | ||||||||
2005-06 | 2006-07 | 2007-08 | 2008-09 | 2009-10 | 2010-11 | 2011-12 | 2012-13 | 2013-14 |
864,062 | 903,749 | 871,506 | 517,216 | 1,176,288 | 8,191,617 | 8,252,014 | 12,773,370 | 9,014,373 |
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