Question follow-through · 18457
Iron and Steel: Manufacturing Industries
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what contingency measures his Department has should negotiations with Jingye on the future of steel blast furnaces collapse.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 6 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 10 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 18 Dec 2024 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
6 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what contingency measures his Department has should negotiations with Jingye on the future of steel blast furnaces collapse.
10 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Dec 2024
Answer published
The Government is in negotiations with British Steel’s shareholder regarding the company’s commercial plans to transition to productive and efficient methods of steel production. As with any responsible Government, we continue to consider all possible out...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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