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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will support the development and implementation of a net zero emissions steel strategy for the UK.

The Government’s 2021 Net Zero Strategy reaffirms our commitment to continue to work with the steel industry on decarbonisation. We are working with the sector to support its decarbonisation options – including hydrogen based steelmaking technology - and to consider the implications of the recommendations of the Climate Change Committee to ‘set targets for ore-based steelmaking to reach near-zero emissions by 2035’.

The appropriate decarbonisation pathway for individual sites will be based on multiple factors and the Government is working closely with companies to support them as they make commercial decisions on the optimum route for their sites.