Sarah Edwards

Sarah Edwards

Labour — Tamworth

Speaking in the House of Commons on 28 April 2026

Debate

UK-India Technology Security Initiative

Contribution

The point on critical minerals, which the Select Committee has been looking into, is really important. One piece of evidence we heard was on the slight concern about the size of the UK and our ability to do this alone, which meant that our emphasis would be on friendshoring and the throughput of material we would need to make this viable. Does my hon. Friend therefore agree that we need these types of deals to make sure that we can, for example, recycle our lithium and that we have friends to do that with, so that we can support important initiatives such as this?

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