Home Office: Iron and Steel

(asked on 27th June 2019) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will sign his Department up to the UK Steel charter.


Answered by
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Victoria Atkins
Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
This question was answered on 8th July 2019

We have discussed the procurement of steel with the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, which has asked all Government departments to consider guidance on steel procurement and to notify of any upcoming opportunities for industry.

More broadly, the Government is committed to supporting the steel sector to realise the broader commercial opportunities that are open to it, which could be worth an additional £3.8 billion a year by 2030. We are establishing the Industrial Energy Transformation Fund – backed by up to £315m of investment – to help businesses with high energy use (including steel companies) to cut their bills and transition UK industry to a low carbon future. We are also providing up to £66m through the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund to help steel and other foundation industries develop radical new technologies.

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