Question follow-through · 122488
Minerals: Imports
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what analysis his Department has undertaken of the UK’s level of reliance on imported critical minerals essential for battery production, semiconductors and renewable energy technologies.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 20 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 24 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 26 Mar 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
20 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what analysis his Department has undertaken of the UK’s level of reliance on imported critical minerals essential for battery production, semiconductors and renewable energy technologies.
24 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
26 Mar 2026
Answer published
The 2025 Critical Minerals Strategy sets out the UK’s vision for securing the critical minerals that are essential for our advanced manufacturing, clean energy, defence, and digital and technology sectors. In 2025, the UK imported £13.4 billion of critica...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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