Iron and Steel: Manufacturing Industries

(asked on 23rd February 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask His Majesty's Government whether the UK has a strategic need to maintain a steel industry; and if not, how it can ensure industrial resilience.


Answered by
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Lord Johnson of Lainston
Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
This question was answered on 8th March 2023

The UK steel industry not only underpins a range of domestic industries, it forms the core of some local communities and economies. The Government remains committed to a UK steel industry and a decarbonised future, supporting local economic growth and our levelling-up agenda.

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