Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 99540

Furnaces: Scunthorpe

Tabled: 12 December 2025
Answered: 17 December 2025
Named Day

Question

Andrew Griffith

ConservativeArundel and South Downs

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what estimate he has made of the cost of decommissioning the blast furnaces at the British Steel Limited Scunthorpe Steelworks.

Answer

Chris McDonald
British Steel remains privately owned and estimated costs to decommission the blast furnaces is commercially sensitive information.