To highlight the UK's need for a secure, sustainable supply of critical minerals to deliver the nation's industrial strategy.
1. Critical Minerals
08/04/2020 - APPGs
Found: need for a secure, sustainable supply of critical minerals to deliver the nation's industrial strategy
2. Access to Critical Materials
13/09/2019 - Parliamentary Research
Found: parliament.uk/post Number 609 September 2019 Critical materials (CMs) such as cobalt, helium and rare
3. The Natural History Museum - written evidence
03/09/2019 - Inquiry: Decarbonisation of the UK Economy and Green Finance - Treasury Committee
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Found: Richard Herrington and fellow expert members of SoS MinErals (an interdisciplinary programme of NERC-EPSRC-Newton-FAPESP
4. Sheffield City Council - written evidence
23/04/2018 - Inquiry: Planning guidance on fracking inquiry - Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee
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Found: extraction are minerals applications of a similar scale and complexity as other large minerals applications
5. Peak District National Park Authority - written evidence
23/04/2018 - Inquiry: Planning guidance on fracking inquiry - Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee
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Found: one of the richest sources of minerals in England. The three main minerals of commercial interest being
1. UK Renewables: Critical Minerals
15/03/2021 - Commons Chamber
1: for critical minerals, I am delighted to have secured this debate on the use of critical minerals in the - Speech Link
2. Deep Seabed Mining
06/09/2021 - Lords Chamber
1: of the best solutions is recycling and reusing minerals such as magnesium, cobalt and zinc, which are - Speech Link
2: will produce massive demand for many of those minerals, so investing in two new interdisciplinary circular - Speech Link
3: supporter of our net-zero policy, but many of the critical minerals found on the deep seabed are important and - Speech Link
3. UK Deep Sea Mining Industry
20/02/2019 - Westminster Hall
1: timely and important. This year, we reached a critical point in the development of the UK’s deep sea - Speech Link
4. Transport Decarbonisation Plan
16/06/2021 - Westminster Hall
1: £2.8 billion.Electric vehicles will be critical because, as I said, cars account for 55% of emissions - Speech Link
2: still awaiting a hydrogen strategy, which will be critical if we are going to rely on hydrogen-powered trains - Speech Link
3: debates on hydrogen and the first debate on critical minerals in the UK Parliament, and I shall speak about - Speech Link
5. Minerals Mining (Barford)
29/10/2019 - Commons Chamber
1: by Warwickshire County Council as part of its minerals plan. The purpose of the site is the excavation - Speech Link
2: unable to comment on the detail of individual minerals local plans. I am sure he knew that I would say - Speech Link
3: plan for housing allocation, as they have to with minerals. That is why we have a system for how these things - Speech Link
asked by: Alexander Stafford
22/07/2020
... how many British companies mine rare earth minerals; and what proportion of total global output do they produce. 2. Minerals
asked by: Steve Double
09/03/2021
... what steps he is taking to develop a critical mineral circular economy industry in the UK. 3. Minerals
asked by: Alexander Stafford
09/03/2021
... whether critical minerals supply will be part of the UK's G7 objectives. 4. Minerals
asked by: Alexander Stafford
09/03/2021
... what steps the Government is taking to attract critical mineral processors to the UK. 5. Minerals
asked by: Alexander Stafford
09/03/2021
... whether the Government has an official critical minerals list.
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5 Current APPG Officers
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Steve Double
Chair & Registered Contact
Conservative - St Austell and Newquay
Joined: 8th April 2020Celtic Sea , Christianity in the Holy Land , Dairy , Faith and Society , General Aviation , Hydrogen , Laos , Migration , Mining and Quarrying , Ocean Conservation
Banning Trophy Hunting , Catalonia , Cayman Islands , Global Tuberculosis , Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases , Population, Development and Reproductive Health , Qatar , Safeguarding in Faith Communities , Ukraine , United Nations Global Goals for Sustainable Development , War Crimes
Algeria , Archives and History , CAFOD , Coalfield Communities , Connected and Automated Mobility , Environment , Environmental, Social, and Governance , Fair Business Banking , Falkland Islands , Flags and Heraldry , Health and the Natural Environment , Holy See , Hydrogen , International Freedom of Religion or Belief , Kurdistan in Turkey and Syria , Kurdistan Region in Iraq , Mentoring , Nature , Pension Clawback , Philately , SME (Small and Medium-sized Enterprises) House Builders , St George's Day , Sudan and South Sudan , Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire
Air Pollution , Bangladesh , Celtic Sea , China , Democracy and the Constitution , Hong Kong , Nature , Ocean Conservation , Speech and Language Difficulties , Trade Justice , Youth Action against Climate Change
Inclusive Growth
Contact Details
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Steve Double MP, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA. Tel: 020 7219 4408.
Email: steve.double.mp@parliament.uk
Public Enquiry Point:
Kirsty Benham, Critical Minerals Association, 125 Old Broad Street, London EC2N 1AR. Tel: 07895 028 439
Email: kirsty@criticalmineral.org
Secretariat:
Critical Minerals Association acts as the group's secretariat. https://www.criticalmineral.org/
Group's Website:
https://www.criticalmineral.org/all-parliamentary-group-appg
Benefits in Kind
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Critical Minerals Association
Secretariat From : 26/02/2021 To : 25/02/2022
£6,001
26 Feb 2020
Critical Minerals Association
Secretariat From : 26/02/2020 To : 25/02/2021
£1,501
No direct financial benefits are on record for the Critical Minerals APPG
Former APPG Officers
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Acquired Brain Injury , Alternative Dispute Resolution , Archives and History , Autism , Banning Trophy Hunting , Boxing , Cancer , Coalfield Communities , Environment , Flood Prevention , Fusion Energy , Hairdressing, Barbering and Cosmetology , Hospitality and Tourism , Hospitality, Events and Major Food and Drink Businesses in Wales , Immigration Law and Policy , Industrial Heritage , Motor Neurone Disease , Multiple Sclerosis , Music , Mutuals , Olympic and Paralympic Games , Ovarian Cancer , Public Legal Education and Pro Bono , Rail in Wales , Restorative Justice , River Thames , Sepsis , Sport , T Levels , UK Shared Prosperity Fund , Vegetarianism and Veganism , Wales in the World , Western Rail Link to Heathrow
Alex Sobel
Vice Chair
Labour (Co-op) - Leeds North West
Joined: 8th April 2020Departed: 21st April 2021
22q11 Syndrome , Albania , American Football , Antisemitism , Basketball , British Jews , Climate Change , Conservation, Places and People , Côte d’Ivoire , Drones and Modern Conflict , Electoral Reform , Electric Vehicles , Esports , Greenland , Hydrogen , International Conservation , Internet, Communications and Technology , Kosovo , Loan Charge and Taxpayer Fairness , Montenegro , Music , Net Zero , North Macedonia , Northern Culture , Pacific Islands , Park Homes , Rare, Genetic and Undiagnosed Conditions , Renters and Rental Reform , Running , Small Island Developing States , Social Enterprise , Students , Sustainable Finance , Sustainable Resource , Sweden , Uzbekistan , Video Games and Esports , West Papua , Western Sahara
