Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Alex Barros-Curtis and Cat Eccles

Thursday 21st May 2026 Commons Chamber

[Mr Alex Barros-Curtis (Cardiff West) (Lab)]

10. What progress he has made on implementing the steel strategy.

[Cat Eccles (Stourbridge) (Lab)]

16. What progress he has made on implementing the steel strategy.

[The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Business and Trade (Chris McDonald)]

Since publishing our steel strategy on 19 March, we have published provisional product scope and quota volumes for the new steel trade measures; further reduced electricity prices for steel companies from 1 April through our network charging compensation scheme uplift; confirmed that some steel companies will be part of the British industrial competitiveness scheme; announced new transparency requirements on the origin of steel in public procurement; set up a cross-Government working group on scrap; and introduced—today—the Steel Industry (Nationalisation) Bill.