Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 122326
Iron and Steel: Furnaces
Tabled: 19 March 2026
Answered: 26 March 2026
Question
Ben Obese-Jecty
Conservative — Huntingdon
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what progress he has made on transitioning the UK’s remaining blast furnaces to electric arc furnaces.
Answer
Chris McDonaldIn March 2025 Jingye rejected an offer of substantial financial support to convert the Scunthorpe steelworks to electric arc furnaces. More recently we have been in discussions with Jingye to find a pragmatic, realistic solution for the future of British ...
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