Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs written question – answered at on 9 June 2025.
Callum Anderson
Labour, Buckingham and Bletchley
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of the Investor Partnerships programme at increasing the commercialisation of agricultural technologies.
Daniel Zeichner
The Minister of State, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
The Farming Innovation Investor Partnerships programme, launched on 2 June, builds on a pilot round where recipient companies were awarded over £4 million in grant funding that leveraged more than £10 million in private investment. Most of the companies involved now have commercially available products, and have unlocked additional private funding.
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