Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether the UK has imported rare earth minerals from Russia since 2022.

HRMC’s Overseas trade statistics (country of dispatch basis) show that the UK did not import any Rare Earth Elements (REE) products* dispatched directly from Russia, between 2022 and April 2025.

*HS codes 280530, 284610, 284690, 360690