Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 53772

Genetically Modified Organisms: Research

Tabled: 20 May 2025
Answered: 30 May 2025

Question

Adrian Ramsay

Green PartyWaveney Valley

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

Answer

Daniel Zeichner
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...

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