{"value":{"id":1799208,"askingMemberId":4719,"askingMember":null,"house":"Lords","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2025-04-30T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2025-05-15T00:00:00","uin":"HL7050","questionText":"To ask His Majesty's Government how much public funding has been allocated to research and development for the commercialisation of crops, livestock, foods and micro-organisms produced by agricultural genetic modification since 2014; and what proportion of this funding has been awarded to UK-based companies.","answeringBodyId":13,"answeringBodyName":"Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":false,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":4395,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2025-05-16T00:00:00","answerText":"<p>Since 2014 UKRI, through BBSRC (approximately £13.9 million) and Innovate UK (approximately £1.35 million), has invested more than £15 million in research involving genetic modification (including genome editing) of crops and farmed animals for agricultural- and food-based research based in the UK.</p>","originalAnswerText":"","comparableAnswerText":"","dateAnswerCorrected":null,"dateHoldingAnswer":null,"attachmentCount":0,"heading":"Agriculture: Genetically Modified Organisms","attachments":[],"groupedQuestionsDates":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Questions/1799208","method":"GET"}]}