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date	12/05/2023
answering body	Department for Business and Trade
answering dept id	214
answering dept short name	Business and Trade
answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
hansard heading	Electric Vehicles: Manufacturing Industries
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps her Department is taking to support electric vehicle manufacturing.
tabling member constituency	Crawley
tabling member printed	Henry Smith
uin	184806
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/05/2023 answer text <p>The Automotive Transformation Fund (ATF) aims to support the creation of an internationally competitive electric vehicle supply chain in the UK. The Government continues to work with industry via the ATF to unlock strategic investments in gigafactories, motors and drives, power electronics, and fuel cell systems.</p><p> </p><p>In the coming months, after engagement with industry, the Government will build on the ATF and the long-term Advanced Propulsion Centre R&amp;D programme to take decisive action to ensure future investment in the manufacturing of zero emission vehicles.</p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 31/05/2023 11:46:47 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

1627240

registered interest
date	12/05/2023
answering body	Department for Business and Trade
answering dept id	214
answering dept short name	Business and Trade
answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
hansard heading	Batteries: Recycling
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, steps her Department is taking to increase investment in the domestic battery recycling industry.
tabling member constituency	Crawley
tabling member printed	Henry Smith
uin	184807
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2023 answer text <p>The Critical Minerals Refresh published in March, sets out our approach to delivering on the Critical Minerals Strategy, and confirms our participation in the Minerals Security Partnership. Working with international partners, this aims to spur investment in supply chains across four pillars, including recycling and reuse, and will support our work to accelerate a circular economy of critical minerals in the UK.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is also funding record investment in battery innovation and commercialisation, including in recycling. The £541m Faraday Battery Challenge is supporting projects such as REBLEND, which is developing commercial processes to directly recover valuable cathode active materials (CAM) for reuse in automotive batteries. The project is led by Ecoshred, with University of Leicester, University of Birmingham, Minviro, Iconichem Widnes, Watercycle Technologies, Ecolamp Recycling, and Cornish Lithium.</p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 17/05/2023 10:55:25 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

1627241

registered interest
date	12/05/2023
answering body	Department for Business and Trade
answering dept id	214
answering dept short name	Business and Trade
answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
hansard heading	Minerals: Industry
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to the report by the British Geological Society entitled Potential for Critical Raw Material Prospectivity in the UK, published on 17 April 2023, what steps her Department is taking to develop a domestic critical minerals industry.
tabling member constituency	Crawley
tabling member printed	Henry Smith
uin	184808
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2023 answer text <p>The report <em>“Potential for Critical Raw Material Prospectivity in the UK” </em>delivers on the commitment in the Government’s Critical Minerals Strategy to collate geoscientific data and identify target areas of potential for critical minerals within the UK. We are working with the British Geological Survey to understand next steps.</p><p>Through the Critical Minerals Strategy we are working to accelerate the UK’s domestic capabilities along the whole critical minerals value chain. Our support for businesses like Cornish Lithium and Green Lithium shows our determination to put the Strategy into action. We have also established the new Task &amp; Finish Group on Industry Resilience for Critical Minerals which will investigate the critical mineral dependencies and vulnerabilities faced by UK Industry and help it to mitigate risks.</p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 24/05/2023 13:45:55 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

1606256

registered interest
date	22/03/2023
answering body	Department for Business and Trade
answering dept id	214
answering dept short name	Business and Trade
answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
hansard heading	Genomics: National Security
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to the US Department of Commerce adding two subsidiaries of BGI Group to its export blacklist, if she will make an assessment of the adequacy of UK legislation for taking similar measures in the genomics sector; and if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of undertaking a review of the adequacy of protections for British technology and goods from companies linked to the Chinese military.
tabling member constituency	Crawley
tabling member printed	Henry Smith
uin	171381
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/03/2023 answer text <p>HM Government is satisfied that the Strategic Export Licensing Criteria announced in the Written Statement of 8 December 2021, HCWS449, provide a thorough risk assessment framework for assessing all export licence applications, including the capacity of items to be misused in ways that could be used to commit human rights abuses.</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 30/03/2023 11:23:18 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith