Question follow-through · 8697
Iron and Steel: Manufacturing Industries
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to support the steel industry.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 11 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 15 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 18 Oct 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
11 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to support the steel industry.
15 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Oct 2024
Answer published
The Government is developing a steel strategy in partnership with the steel sector and trade unions that will set out a long-term vision for a sustainable steel sector, which we plan to publish in Spring 2025. We have committed £500mn to Port Talbot’s tra...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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