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Debate between Chris Bryant and Perran Moon

Thursday 12th March 2026 Commons Chamber

[Chris Bryant]

Yes.

[Perran Moon (Camborne and Redruth) (Lab)]

The UK economy needs more and more critical minerals, and in Cornwall we have loads of them. Private capital has flown into the duchy on the back of the Labour Government’s investments of about £100 million through the national wealth fund and the Kernow industrial growth fund, but will the Minister update the House on Government plans to unlock more private investment in our critical minerals sector to unleash the Cornish Celtic tiger?