Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what discussions he has had with his Chinese counterpart on the imposition of rare earth export restrictions.

The Department for Business and Trade is regularly engaging with the Chinese Ministry of Commerce on their export controls of Critical Minerals, and DBT continues to explore ways to ensure supply to industry of these minerals is uninterrupted. HMG is committed to supporting UK businesses affected by these export controls and ensuring barriers to trade causing additional monetary and time costs are removed.