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Select Committee
ELV0024 - Electric Vehicles

Written Evidence Nov. 01 2023

Inquiry: Electric Vehicles
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Environment and Climate Change Committee

Found: and mainstream media deliberately ignore the aspects of slavery and also child abuse involved in mining

Departmental Publication (News and Communications)
Department for Business and Trade

Oct. 09 2023

Source Page: £89 million of funding to develop cutting edge new electric vehicle technology
Document: £89 million of funding to develop cutting edge new electric vehicle technology (webpage)

Found: Projects include Green Lithium who plan to build a lithium scale-up plant in Teesside, and Ilika Technologies

Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 25 Jan 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Cherilyn Mackrory (Con - Truro and Falmouth) Mining is coming back to Cornwall. - Speech Link
2: Nusrat Ghani (Con - Wealden) Obviously it is important to secure investment in mining in Cornwall, particularly the mining of lithium - Speech Link

Select Committee
Mr Andrew Child
 ELV0028 - Electric Vehicles

Written Evidence Nov. 01 2023

Inquiry: Electric Vehicles
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Environment and Climate Change Committee

Found: No one seems to talk about the environmental damage that is done whilst mining the lithium and cobalt

Select Committee
First Report - Batteries for electric vehicle manufacturing

Report Nov. 21 2023

Committee: Business and Trade Committee (Department: Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy)

Found: whether the gigafactory is a new design or a replica.10 Other parts of the battery supply chain (e.g. mining

Select Committee
Veolia UK, CarTakeBack.com Limited, Technology Minerals Plc, and Faraday Institution, University of Birmingham

Oral Evidence Oct. 18 2023

Inquiry: Electric Vehicles
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Environment and Climate Change Committee

Found: There is no appetite for investment in mining here in the UK.

Departmental Publication (News and Communications)
Department for Business and Trade

Oct. 11 2023

Source Page: UK to host Minerals Security Partnership for first time to boost investment in critical minerals
Document: UK to host Minerals Security Partnership for first time to boost investment in critical minerals (webpage)

Found: will help to develop responsible critical mineral supply chains, including: 11 projects in upstream mining

Grand Committee
Geothermal Heat and Power - Thu 06 Jul 2023
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Lord Moynihan (CON - Excepted Hereditary) The United Kingdom has significant potential for lithium production and exploration. - Speech Link
2: Lord Lennie (LAB - Life peer) should be investing in if levelling up is to have a real practical meaning, particularly in former mining - Speech Link
3: Lord Callanan (CON - Life peer) Some predict that geothermal lithium extraction could account for up to a quarter of domestic demand - Speech Link

Select Committee
Second Special Report - Batteries for electric vehicle manufacturing: Government Response to the Committee’s First Report of Session 2023-24

Special Report Feb. 14 2024

Committee: Business and Trade Committee (Department: Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy)

Found: This builds on our know-how in lithium-ion solutions and enables the scale-up of emerging innovations

Select Committee
Prof Gautam Kalghatgi
 STO0001 - Strategic transport objectives

Written Evidence Sep. 20 2023

Inquiry: Strategic transport objectives
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Transport Committee (Department: Department for Transport)

Found: For instance, for a mid-range jet like the Airbus A320, a lithium-ion battery with the same energy