Question follow-through · 7959
Minerals: Imports
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what volume of each mineral listed on the UK Critical Minerals List was imported in (a) 2023, (b) 2024 and (c) 2025, broken down by country of origin.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 8 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 11 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 12 Jun 2026 · 4 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
8 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what volume of each mineral listed on the UK Critical Minerals List was imported in (a) 2023, (b) 2024 and (c) 2025, broken down by country of origin.
11 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Jun 2026
Answer published
Please see table below, derived from HMRC’s Import data by preference bulk dataset, using trade codes as published in the technical annex of the UK’s Critical Minerals Strategy. Countries of origin have been grouped into EU and non-EU for legibility.Volum...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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