Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will set a target date for the publication of the Critical Minerals Strategy.

Critical minerals have been included in the recently published National Security Strategy and also in the UK Government’s Resilience Action Plan, highlighting their fundamental importance to safeguarding the UK's economic security and resilience.

Thanks to the extensive engagement and insights from our industry and expert stakeholders as well as through cross-government collaboration, we have developed a powerful new vision and plan for securing critical minerals in the UK. Critical Minerals were identified as a foundational industry to growth driving sectors in the Industry Strategy.

We will continue to refine this ahead of publication this year, taking into account the evolving international context.