Iron and Steel: Employment
Commons · Question 13793 · Tabled 29 Jun 2026 · Department for Business and Trade · Official record
Answered 2 Jul 2026
Question
Asked by 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
Answered by Chris McDonald, 2 Jul 2026
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 ...