Critical minerals

Inquiry by the Foreign Affairs Committee, 19 December 2022 to 26 April 2024. Its page on the Parliament website.

Reports and responses

• First Report - A rock and a hard place: building critical mineral resilience (15 December 2023)
• Third Special Report - A rock and a hard place: building critical mineral resilience: Government Response to the Committee’s First Report (8 March 2024)

Evidence sessions

• 21 March 2023: Jeff Townsend, Critical Minerals Association; Christopher Vandome, Chatham House
• 21 March 2023: Guillaume Pitron; Henry Sanderson
• 18 April 2023: James Black, RAND Europe; Aidan Davy, International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM)
• 18 April 2023: Duncan Wood, Wilson Center; Christopher Heron, Eurometaux (European Metals Association)
• 13 June 2023: Anne-Marie Trevelyan, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office; Professor Paul Monks, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero; Tim Stern, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
• 13 June 2023: Dr Marina Caparini, United Nations University
• 13 June 2023: Fiona Clouder; Paul Atherley, Pensana Plc; Paul Atherley, Tees Valley Lithium