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Written Question
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Research
Wednesday 2nd December 2015

Asked by: Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford (Conservative - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how much of her Department's funding allocated in the Spending Review 2015 will be for research and development expenditure up to 2020.

Answered by George Eustice

Allocations for future years are currently being finalised as part of the Department’s business planning process. A breakdown of the funding allocated for research and development cannot be provided until this exercise is complete.

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Flood Insurance

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Flood Insurance

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Flood Insurance

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