Question follow-through · 99052
Iron and Steel: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether the Treasury has approved funding required for the Steel Strategy.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 10 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 15 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 15 Dec 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether the Treasury has approved funding required for the Steel Strategy.
15 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 Dec 2025
Answer published
The Government has committed up to £2.5 billion to rebuild the steel sector, delivered in part through the National Wealth Fund. This is in addition to the £500m we have invested in the transformation of Port Talbot.We are also committed to delivering a s...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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