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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government on the relationship between planning and the identification of minerals as a productivity foundation as set out in the Industrial Strategy.

My rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State has regular discussions with Ministerial Colleagues on a number of issues. This is in addition to official level discussions between BEIS officials and their counterparts in the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local government on the issue of industrial minerals in construction.