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Select committee: Foreign Affairs Committee

Third Special Report - A rock and a hard place: building critical mineral resilience: Government Response to the Committee’s First Report

HC 583 Published 8 March 2024

Foreign Affairs Committee Critical minerals Report on parliament.uk ↗

At a glance

The government's response

This document responds to First Report - A rock and a hard place: building critical mineral resilience.

This is the government's response, published 8 March 2024.

Summary written by Accountability Index from the government's response. It is not the government's own words.

The government welcomes the report, saying it has "indicated where we agree with the Committee and where our views differ", and it disagrees with several conclusions while agreeing with others.

  • It disagrees that it has failed to show urgency or to assess vulnerabilities before the Strategy, pointing to the Strategy and its Refresh and to work on critical minerals "for over a decade".
  • It agrees that critical minerals are strategically significant and that high ESG standards should sit at the heart of its international engagement.
  • It partially agrees on the Strategy's scope and detail, and commits that the Department for Business and Trade "will be publishing a further update on implementation progress during 2024".
  • On specific sector targets, it disagrees, but says it is "considering" the Task and Finish Group's findings and "will set out its response to that report in Spring 2024".

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