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Written Question
Electric Vehicles and Lithium: Supply Chains
Tuesday 18th March 2025

Asked by: Luke Myer (Labour - Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland)

Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to support the growth of the (a) electric vehicle and (b) lithium salts supply chains.

Answered by Sarah Jones - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)

We support the Automotive sector via the Automotive Transformation Fund to build a globally competitive electric vehicle supply chain, including gigafactories and their supply chains. The Budget committed over £2 billion of capital and R&D funding to 2030 for zero emission vehicle manufacturing and supply chains. We will set out more information on this in due course as part of the Industrial Strategy.