Question follow-through · 74372
Materials: Innovation
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with UKRI on steps his Department is taking to support innovative materials whose development has been funded by grants from Innovate UK.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 2 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 4 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 11 Sept 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
2 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with UKRI on steps his Department is taking to support innovative materials whose development has been funded by grants from Innovate UK.
4 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Sept 2025
Answer published
Officials regularly engage with UK Research and Innovation including with Innovate UK as the delivery partner for some of our most significant research programmes. The Farming Innovation Programme, delivered in partnership with Innovate UK, provides grant...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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