Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, when the resilience of UK supply chains for critical minerals was last formally reviewed by his Department; and what the findings of that review were.

The Critical Minerals Intelligence Centre (CMIC) updated the UK Criticality Assessment in November 2024, identifying critical minerals based on global supply risk and the UK’s economic vulnerability. This informed the 2025 UK Critical Minerals Strategy, which introduced a new, complementary list of growth minerals, which will be increasingly important to future industries and economic growth. CMIC will update the criticality assessment in due course; in the interim, Government continues to monitor developments. Further, to help anticipate future risks, DBT’s Supply Chain Centre published its list of growth-driving inputs, including chemicals and raw materials, vital for the Industrial Strategy manufacturing sectors.