Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 16799
Minerals: Supply Chains
Tabled: 7 July 2026
Answered: 15 July 2026
Question
David Reed
Conservative — Exmouth 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 McDonaldThe 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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