Member

In the dinner break, we will hear a Statement delivered on Thursday in the other place on the strategic importance of the UK steel industry. It was opened by a statement that steel production is essential as a “driver of social justice”, and that it is an industry that underpins communities. That has a rather hollow ring in those communities where Allied Steel and Wire pensioners live on dwindling incomes that fail to maintain them, let alone repay the debt society owes to those who gave their working lives to those industries and often sacrificed their health in so doing.