Policy paper

UK Critical Minerals Strategy

This is the UK’s first-ever critical minerals strategy that aims to improve the security of supply of critical minerals.

• From: Department for Business and Trade and Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
• Published: 22 July 2022
• Last updated: 13 March 2023 — See all updates

This was published under the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government

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Resilience for the Future: The UK’s Critical Minerals Strategy

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Resilience for the Future: The UK’s Critical Minerals Strategy

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Modern society relies on critical minerals – from phones to wind turbines, from cars to fighter jets. A new cohort of critical minerals are becoming even more important as we seek to bolster our energy security and domestic industrial resilience – in light of Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine – and as we move away from volatile, expensive fossil fuels.

‘Resilience for the future: the UK’s critical minerals strategy’ sets out the government’s plans for improving the resilience of critical minerals supply chains and increasing our security of supply.

Through this strategy, the UK will:

• accelerate growth of the UK’s domestic capabilities
• collaborate with international partners
• enhance international markets to make them more responsive, transparent and responsible

Since publishing the strategy in July 2022, government has been engaging with industry and international partners to deliver on the stated ambitions.

In March 2023, government published the ‘Critical minerals refresh: delivering resilience in a changing global environment’ in light of a changing global landscape and the sharpening of geopolitical competition and to highlight its progress and upcoming delivery milestones.

Published 22 July 2022
Last updated 13 March 2023 + show all updates

1. 13 March 2023

   Critical Minerals Refresh: Delivering Resilience in a Changing Global Environment published.

2. 22 July 2022

   First published.