Found: Supply chains and critical minerals; e. Advanced technologies; f. Aerospace; g.

Found: carbon capture, utilisation, and storage), chemicals, health and life sciences, supply chains and critical

Found: minerals, energy or 5 semiconductors, and critical national infrastructure.

Found: minerals, energy or 5 semiconductors, and critical national infrastructure.

Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the deposits of lithium in Wales and Scotland; and whether they will ensure that all such is conveyed to the respective devolved authorities.

Answered by Lord Johnson of Lainston - Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)

The Critical Minerals Strategy committed to collate UK geoscientific data and identify areas of geological potential for critical mineral extraction. The Department for Business and Trade commissioned the British Geological Survey to undertake the study, “Potential for Critical Raw Material Prospectivity in the UK”, delivered by the Critical Minerals Intelligence Centre (CMIC) and was published in 2023. It is a preliminary assessment of geological factors only, and its findings do not mean prospective areas identified will necessarily be targeted for exploration and mining. Mineral planning policy is also a devolved matter.

Areas of potential geological prospectivity for critical minerals were identified in both Scotland and Wales. Regarding the geological prospectivity for lithium, the report identified two areas in Scotland and no areas in Wales.

Found: The government has said that climate change will pose risks to global supply chains, spanning food, critical

Found: tonnes of lithium to landfill , 15 July 2022 105 HM Government, Resilience for the Future: The UK’s critical

Found:   Minister will drive forward new trade and investment opportunities and UK-Canada collaboration on critical

Found: He will also visit the Nyakabingo Tungsten Mine, to demonstrate UK government interest in the critical

Found: International Energy Agency (IEA) , The Role of Critical Minerals in Clean Energy Transition, March

Found: WastePack, 2023 30 Resilience for the Future: The UK’s Critical Raw Materials Strategy 31 The Role of Critical

Found: 15 Resilience for the Future: The UK’s Critical Raw Materials Strategy 16 The Role of Critical

Found: Future: The UK’s Critical Raw Materials Strategy 17 Internatio nal Energy Agency, 2021, The Role of Critical

Found: WastePack, 2023 38 Resilience for the Future: The UK’s Critical Raw Materials Strategy 39 The Role of Critical

Found: Department of Business & Trade, UK Government, 2023 17 The Role of Critical Minerals in Clean Energy