Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 16799

Minerals: Supply Chains

Tabled: 7 July 2026
Answered: 15 July 2026

Question

David Reed

ConservativeExmouth and Exeter East

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, when the resilience of UK supply chains for critical minerals was last formally reviewed by his Department; and what the findings of that review were.

Answer

Chris McDonald
The Critical Minerals Intelligence Centre (CMIC) updated the UK Criticality Assessment in November 2024, identifying critical minerals based on global supply risk and the UK’s economic vulnerability. This informed the 2025 UK Critical Minerals Strategy, w...

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