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HANSARD Advanced Ceramics Industry: North StaffordshireIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Jeremy. I am very grateful to my hon. Friend the Member for Stoke-on-Trent South (Dr Gardner) for securing this debate. She…03 Dec 2025HANSARD Advanced Ceramics Industry: North StaffordshireAlthough the compensation scheme I outlined is delivering £1.7 million to eight ceramics firms, I am acutely aware that it does not cover the vast majority of the sector. I met…03 Dec 2025HANSARD Advanced Ceramics Industry: North StaffordshireI know that my hon. Friend will be familiar with the benefit that sector strategies have had in other areas through his work as the vice-chair of the international trade and…03 Dec 2025HANSARDContingent Liability Guarantee: SEFEI wish to make Members aware of the details of a contingent liability guarantee, which will be entered into in favour of SEFE, in accordance with and pursuant to the Steel…27 Nov 2025HANSARDBusiness and TradeIn Cornwall, we have Europe’s largest deposits of lithium, and in Devon, the world’s largest deposits of tungsten. The UK has the only Western source of rare earth alloys for F-35…25 Nov 2025HANSARDBusiness and TradeIn Cornwall, we have Europe’s largest deposits of lithium, and in Devon, the world’s second largest deposits of tungsten. The UK has the only Western source of rare earth alloys…25 Nov 2025HANSARD Critical Minerals StrategyMy hon. and gallant Friend is right to raise the issue of AUKUS. I omitted AUKUS from the long list of international collaborations in my speech, but of course, there is an…24 Nov 2025HANSARD Critical Minerals StrategyMy hon. Friend is right to point out the importance of polyhalite and the uniqueness of the UK’s reserves. As I mentioned to my hon. Friend the Member for Middlesbrough South and…24 Nov 2025HANSARDBritish Industrial Competitiveness SchemeI can today announce to the House that the Government are taking the next step in delivering a flagship intervention of the industrial strategy, by launching a consultation to…24 Nov 2025HANSARD Critical Minerals StrategyMy hon. Friend is right to point to the opportunity in Weardale, which is currently being investigated by Weardale Lithium. I do hope that the company is successful in the…24 Nov 2025HANSARD Critical Minerals StrategyBusinesses with the kinds of technologies my hon. Friend mentions—separation technologies—can, as she said, access funding via the British Business Bank and the National Wealth…24 Nov 2025HANSARDCritical Minerals StrategyToday the Government have published their new critical minerals strategy. Growth is the No. 1 mission of this Government, and the modern industrial strategy is central to that…24 Nov 2025HANSARD Critical Minerals StrategyI am delighted that my hon. Friend has raised the issue of copper; I raised it nearly 10 years ago. Copper was not included in previous strategies because it was not regarded as a…24 Nov 2025HANSARD Critical Minerals StrategyWe already have projects for lithium recycling coming forward in Teesside that will benefit my hon. Friend’s constituents in Hartlepool. More than that, investments in nuclear…24 Nov 2025HANSARD Critical Minerals StrategyI agree that the security of the nation is very much dependent on the availability of these critical minerals. I hope that when people go to the ballot box, they think about the…24 Nov 2025HANSARD Critical Minerals StrategyI could not agree more with my hon. Friend. There is an intrinsic link between the availability of critical minerals and the surety of defence, which is why so many countries are…24 Nov 2025HANSARD Critical Minerals StrategyMy hon. Friend is right to highlight the polyhalite mines. There is the Whitby mine, of course, and I went down the Boulby mine myself some years ago. They are quite remarkable…24 Nov 2025HANSARD Critical Minerals StrategyThe hon. Gentleman is right to point out that the critical minerals strategy will benefit every nation in the UK, including Northern Ireland. I am particularly keen to learn more…24 Nov 2025HANSARD Critical Minerals StrategyI can assure my hon. Friend that the Government are extremely concerned about the ecological impact of deep-sea mining. The Government support a moratorium on—I choose my words…24 Nov 2025HANSARD Critical Minerals StrategyWith permission, I would like to make a statement on the Government’s critical minerals strategy. Madam Deputy Speaker, I am particularly delighted that you are in the Chair,…24 Nov 2025