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Angela Smith Excerpts
Tuesday 13th September 2016

(7 years, 8 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Angela Smith Portrait Angela Smith (Penistone and Stocksbridge) (Lab)
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T8. The expansion of Heathrow would create a demand for 370,000 tonnes of steel and secure 700 steel jobs, so it is not only in the interests of the UK economy more generally that we expand Heathrow but specifically in the interests of the manufacturing sector. Why do we not just get on with it, have the vote here in the Chamber and get on with the building of the third runway?

Greg Clark Portrait Greg Clark
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We do need an upgrade across many different forms of infrastructure, and that will have very important benefits to the steel industry, including in Sheffield.