Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 13793

Iron and Steel: Employment

Tabled: 29 June 2026

Answered: 2 July 2026

Named Day

Question

Dame Harriett Baldwin

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.

Answer

Chris McDonald

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 ...

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