Question follow-through · 37418
Electric Vehicles and Lithium: Supply Chains
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to support the growth of the (a) electric vehicle and (b) lithium salts supply chains.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 11 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 18 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 18 Mar 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
11 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to support the growth of the (a) electric vehicle and (b) lithium salts supply chains.
18 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Mar 2025
Answer published
We support the Automotive sector via the Automotive Transformation Fund to build a globally competitive electric vehicle supply chain, including gigafactories and their supply chains. The Budget committed over £2 billion of capital and R&D funding to ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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