The UK government has said it will be "pushing as hard as we can" to increase lithium and tin production.Perran Moon, the member for the Camborne and Redruth constituency in Cornwall, raised the question in the UK parliament on November 12. "As Ministers know, the European powerhouse of critical minerals is Cornwall, including its vast quantities of lithium, essential for our transition away from fossil fuels," Moon said.
"Will the Ministers agree with the industry's call for a target of 50,000t of lithium?"Perran's constituency in Cornwall, in the south-west of England, is the UK's centre of lithium and tin mining, as well as home to the Camborne School of Mines. In response to Moon's comment, Sarah Jones, the UK minister of state for industry, said she "looks forward to meeting him shortly to talk about tin, among other things".