Question follow-through · 7464
Iron and Steel: Manufacturing Industries
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to help ensure that UK downstream manufacturers who require steel that is not available in UK are not being placed at a significant disadvantage to their European counterparts.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 8 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 11 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 11 Jun 2026 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
8 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to help ensure that UK downstream manufacturers who require steel that is not available in UK are not being placed at a significant disadvantage to their European counterparts.
11 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Jun 2026
Answer published
Our aim with the new steel trade measure is to strike the right balance: securing the future of domestic capability while maintaining secure supply chains to make the UK economy more resilient in the long term. Where this is not feasible for technical rea...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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