Question follow-through · 29831
Minerals: Exploration
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of re-allocating a proportion of the National Wealth Fund for a new mineral exploration fund.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 6 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 10 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 14 Feb 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
6 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of re-allocating a proportion of the National Wealth Fund for a new mineral exploration fund.
10 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 Feb 2025
Answer published
The National Wealth Fund (NWF) is a publicly owned investor which provides a range of financing tools across the capital structure, including loans, guarantees and equity investments for projects which align with its mandate.The NWF’s investment decisions...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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