Asked by: Steve Barclay (Conservative - North East Cambridgeshire)
Question to the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology:
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, for a list of all grants made from the Life Sciences Innovative Manufacturing Fund to date, identifying the grant amount and the recipient company.
Answered by Kanishka Narayan - Minister of State (Cabinet Office) (Jointly with the Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Technology)
The Government has committed up to £520m for life sciences manufacturing through the Life Sciences Innovative Manufacturing Fund (LSIMF). The scheme launched in October 2024 and will deliver funding until March 2030. To date the scheme has made nine grant awards, totalling £105.8 million of committed expenditure. Details of all awards made under the scheme are published on the "Search for UK Subsidies" transparency database at https://searchforuksubsidies.beis.gov.uk/scheme/?scheme=SC11219, and this will be updated as further grants are awarded.
Asked by: Steve Barclay (Conservative - North East Cambridgeshire)
Question to the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology:
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, how much funding through the Life Sciences Innovative Manufacturing Fund has been awarded to projects focused on Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products (ATMPs).
Answered by Kanishka Narayan - Minister of State (Cabinet Office) (Jointly with the Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Technology)
The Government has committed up to £520m for life sciences manufacturing, through the Life Sciences Innovative Manufacturing Fund (LSIMF). The scheme launched in October 2024 and will deliver funding until March 2030. Projects focused on Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products (ATMPs) are in scope of the scheme, and we have supported two projects in this sector, totalling £4,335,478 of grant funding. We have other ATMP projects in the pipeline, and expect to make further grant awards soon. We continue to welcome applications from the ATMP sector.