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Electric Vehicles and Lithium: Supply Chains

Asked by Luke MyerLabourDepartment for Business and TradeTabled Answered 18 March 2025UIN 37418

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to support the growth of the (a) electric vehicle and (b) lithium salts supply chains.

Answered by Sarah Jones

We support the Automotive sector via the Automotive Transformation Fund to build a globally competitive electric vehicle supply chain, including gigafactories and their supply chains. The Budget committed over £2 billion of capital and R&D funding to 2030 for zero emission vehicle manufacturing and supply chains. We will set out more information on this in due course as part of the Industrial Strategy.

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