Question to the Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to increase domestic steel production.

The government is taking decisive action to increase domestic steel production. Alongside improving the business environment for steel companies through the Steel Strategy, we brought British Steel into public ownership to maintain production and explore long-term options for the business. We are providing £500m to Tata Steel UK to support its transformation programme at Port Talbot and the government announced it will work towards the public acquisition of Speciality Steels UK, which will include consideration of future steelmaking operations and site regeneration.