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Minerals: Supply Chains

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Question for Department for Business and Trade

UIN 171391, tabled on 22 March 2023

Question

Bill Esterson
Labour
Sefton Central
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to the paper by the Critical Minerals Association entitled Midstream Processing and Refining: Unlocking Security of Supply, published on 13 March 2023, whether she plans to increase the rate at which midstream plants for critical minerals are brought into production.

Answer

Ms Nusrat Ghani
Conservative
Wealden
Commons

Answered on

3 April 2023

The Government is working to create an enabling environment for the growth of the UK chemicals, metals, materials and waste sectors that make up the midstream of the critical minerals value chain. This includes targeted funding, for example, through the Automotive Transformation Fund’s support of Pensana, Green Lithium, Less Common Metals and others. Government is also backing innovation through programmes such as the new £15 million Innovate UK Circular Critical Materials Supply Chains (CLIMATES) programme to boost rare earth supply chains and circular economy.

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