Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, which facilities on the east coast of (a) Scotland and (b) England have the capacity to recycle steel and other material from decommissioned infrastructure from the offshore oil and gas industry.

There is an established supply chain for recycling disused machinery and structures of all types in the UK, from removal and dismantling of the equipment, via the scrap merchants that separate the materials, through to final recycling of the materials into new products.

The supply chain is complex and there are many suppliers and facilities across the UK. All the primary steel producers in the UK use steel scrap as a feedstock, along with numerous metals foundries which can melt scrap steel and other metals.