Business and Trade Sub-Committee on Economic Security, Arms and Export Controls
22 April 2026
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Business and Trade Sub-Committee on Economic Security, Arms and Export Controls House of Commons
00:06 - 00:29
Speaker 1
Welcome to today's session on the subcommittee of economic security arms and export controls as we open our inquiry into The UK's Critical Mineral Strategy. Thank you very much indeed to our witnesses for sparing us some time to give evidence this afternoon. And, Catherine Goodner, perhaps I could start with you. Do you want to just give us a sense of what are critical minerals and why are they important to UK industry?
00:30 - 01:22
Speaker 2
Of course. So critical minerals are that's actually a term that's very well defined. They are those minerals that are important to The UK's economy but that have a risk to their to their supply. So they can be important across a whole range of sectors, whether that be for the energy transition, whether it be for defense, whether it be for technology. And those risks to their supply are many and varied.
They may be political. Political, they may be geological, but often not. They may be environmental. They may be related to social aspects. So a whole range of different risks to supply.
And the decision on which minerals are critical for The UK is taken, by the Critical Minerals Intelligence Centre, which my colleague Gavin Mudd is here representing.
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