Iron and Steel
(asked on 24th January 2024) - View Source
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask His Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the tonnage of coil and sheet steel (1) manufactured in, and (2) imported into, the UK in each of the past five years.
Answered by
Lord Offord of Garvel
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade)
Coil and sheet steel, commonly known as flat steel, is predominantly manufactured by Tata Steel in the UK. Based on Companies House data (here), Tata Steel's production volumes are in the table below:
Year | Production (Millions of Tonnes of Liquid Steel) |
17/18 | 3.6 |
18/19 | 3.2 |
19/20 | 3.5 |
20/21 | 3.4 |
21/22 | 3.5 |
Spartan UK and Liberty Steel Dalzell also produce flat steel products, volumes for which are relatively small. Data made available through Companies House, however, are unavailable on a consistent and comparable basis with Tata Steel.
Based on HMRC Trade Info (here), the figures for imports of flat steel products are in the table below:
Year | Imports (Millions of Tonnes) |
2018 | 3.7 |
2019 | 3.4 |
2020 | 2.4 |
2021 | 3.1 |
2022 | 2.7 |
Flat Steel products defined by HS Codes 7208-7212, 7219, 7220, 7225 and 7226.