Question follow-through · 9686
Lithium: Production
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of mandating a 50,000 tons per annum production target for domestic lithium.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 16 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 22 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 22 Oct 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
16 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of mandating a 50,000 tons per annum production target for domestic lithium.
22 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 Oct 2024
Answer published
A secure supply of critical minerals is vital for the UK's economic growth and security, industrial strategy ambitions, and clean energy transition.Domestic production of lithium will be increasingly important as demand for resilient and responsible sourc...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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