Steel Industry

Mark Tami Excerpts

Wednesday 28th October 2015 Commons Chamber

[Ms Eagle]

I was fairly astonished to read the comments from the Minister for what the Government call the “northern powerhouse”. He said that what has happened to Redcar was a “tragic distraction” from his work on the northern powerhouse—I had hoped that he would have seen it as part of his job to try to get the Government to take much earlier action to head off an entirely foreseeable occurrence.

[Mark Tami (Alyn and Deeside) (Lab)]

Does my hon. Friend agree that the Chinese have not just started dumping steel but have been doing so for a long time?

[Ms Eagle]

They have, and I will come on to the Chinese later in my remarks.