Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department has had discussions with the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy on the UK Steel charter.

The Ministry of Justice will sign the Charter. The MoJ supports the Charter where this is relevant to our commercial activities and only where consistent with the relevant procurement regulations that require fair and open competition.

Andrew Stephenson MP, Parliamentary Undersecretary of State at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, wrote to Secretary of State for Justice on 29 May to ask my Department to sign the Steel Charter.