Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 55964

Minerals: China

Tabled: 30 May 2025
Answered: 9 June 2025
Named Day

Question

Clive Jones

Liberal DemocratWokingham

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what discussions he has had with his Chinese counterpart on the imposition of rare earth export restrictions.

Answer

Sarah Jones
The Department for Business and Trade is regularly engaging with the Chinese Ministry of Commerce on their export controls of Critical Minerals, and DBT continues to explore ways to ensure supply to industry of these minerals is uninterrupted. HMG is comm...

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