Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to help ensure that the STEP project is supported by companies in the UK on out sourcing and forming operations for the metals required by that project, including Tungsten.

UK companies will play a critical role in helping to deliver STEP by 2040 and in turn, the Programme will develop capacity in the wider UK supply chain. Plans for the sourcing of materials including metals necessary for the success of STEP are in development and the UK Atomic Energy Authority continue to work closely with UK companies to maximise opportunity. The Department recently published the Critical Minerals Strategy which outlines how the UK will take collaborative action to diversify and increase the resilience of our supply chains.