Question follow-through · 22807
Minerals: National Security
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of reliance on imported rare earth minerals for net zero technologies on national security.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 8 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 13 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 15 Jan 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
8 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of reliance on imported rare earth minerals for net zero technologies on national security.
13 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 Jan 2025
Answer published
Critical minerals, including rate earth elements are crucial for the UK in terms of security, clean energy, industry and emerging technologies. That is why the Government is developing a critical minerals strategy to ensure we are diversifying our supply ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Department for Business and Trade: Carbon Emissions
9 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how much his Department has spent on measures to achieve net zero targets in the last five years.
Regulation: Costs
9 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an estimate of the annual cost of regulatory compliance for businesses in each of the last five years; and if she will make a comparative estimate of the cost of regulatory compliance (