Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of (a) setting indicative targets for domestically made steel in public projects and (b) formulating policies to help meet such targets.
Setting UK procurement targets for public projects or any measures which favour, or indirectly discriminate in favour of, UK products or suppliers, constitutes a breach of the UK’s international obligations under the WTO’s Government Procurement Agreement (GPA).