Question follow-through · 94156
Minerals
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, to what extent the Critical Minerals Strategy will align with the EU’s Steel and Metals Action Plan.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 25 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 27 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 2 Dec 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
25 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, to what extent the Critical Minerals Strategy will align with the EU’s Steel and Metals Action Plan.
27 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Dec 2025
Answer published
While there are certain industrial metals in scope of the new Critical Minerals Strategy (such as aluminium), the strategy focuses on securing the critical minerals the UK needs rather than directly addressing the challenges of decarbonisation and trade i...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Aluminium: Exports
8 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what plans he has to restrict the export of scrap aluminium from the UK to address the challenge of scarce critical minerals identified in the Critical Mineral Strategy, published on the 22nd of Novemb