Question follow-through · 13793
Iron and Steel: Employment
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of levels of employment in primary and down stream steel firms.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 29 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 2 Jul 2026
- Answer
- 2 Jul 2026 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
29 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of levels of employment in primary and down stream steel firms.
2 Jul 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Jul 2026
Answer published
The iron and steel sector supports c. 33,000 direct jobs in the country. Through our £500 million grant for Tata Steel UK’s EAF transformation project at Port Talbot we saved 5,000 UK jobs and our intervention at Scunthorpe last April resulted in British ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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