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1006098

	registered interest
	date	13/11/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Private Finance Initiative
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what his Department's definition is of privately financed in relation to infrastructure projects.
	tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
	tabling member printed	Zac Goldsmith
	uin	190874
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2018 answer text <p>Private finance is a way to deliver infrastructure projects in which the private sector invests equity and/or lends in order to facilitate the development, delivery, and/or operation of a project, asset or entity with the expectation of earning a return on the investment.</p> answering member constituency South West Norfolk answering member printed Elizabeth Truss question first answered 19/11/2018 13:38:37 answering member 4097 label Biography information for Elizabeth Truss
	tabling member	4062 label Biography information for Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park

1646801

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	date	22/06/2023
	answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept id	13
	answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	hansard heading	Crops: Protection
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to support research into crop protection for crops of national and international importance.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	190874
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2023 answer text <p>Defra has invested over £8.2 million between 2018 and 2024 on Genetic Improvement Networks on nationally and internationally important crops including wheat, oilseed rape, pulses and vegetable crops in research identifying genetic traits to improve their productivity, sustainability, resilience and nutritional quality. We are working with breeders to incorporate these traits into elite UK crop varieties. In May the Government announced additional investment in genetic improvement of up to £30 million to unlock the potential of precision breeding technologies.</p><p> </p><p>We have also committed over £104 million to date through the £270 million Farming Innovation Programme for industry-led research and development in agriculture and horticulture in England. This investment is enabling more farmers, growers and agri-food businesses to become involved in agricultural R&amp;D. This will maximise the impact of R&amp;D investment in innovation and improve the take up of novel approaches on farms.</p><p> </p><p>UK Research and Innovation also has a longstanding strategic priority on Sustainable Agriculture and Food (averaging £139 million per year), supporting critical ‘underpinning’ research and capability/skills development in plant science, pest and pathogen biology. The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council’s recently announced Institute Strategic Programme includes ‘Building Robustness in Crops’, ‘Advancing Plant Health’, and ‘Delivering Sustainable Wheat’, which are all seeking to tackle strategic challenges in agriculture over the next five-year period.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Sherwood answering member printed Mark Spencer question first answered 27/06/2023 13:56:29 answering member 4055 label Biography information for Sir Mark Spencer
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah