Question follow-through · 53772
Genetically Modified Organisms: Research
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much and what proportion of funding for (a) agricultural genetic modification research and development and (b) precision breeding techniques has been allocated to (i) non-UK compan
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 20 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 22 May 2025
- Answer
- 30 May 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
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Recorded timeline
20 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much and what proportion of funding for (a) agricultural genetic modification research and development and (b) precision breeding techniques has been allocated to (i) non-UK compan
22 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
30 May 2025
Answer published
Innovate UK invested £0.15 million (2023) and £1.2 million (2024) into UK companies undertaking research using precision breeding techniques in crops and farmed animals. Innovate UK has not funded any agricultural genetic modification research and develop...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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