Written questions

Iron and Steel: Carbon Emissions

Commons · Question 17317 · Tabled 9 Jul 2026 · Department for Business and Trade · Official record

Answered 14 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 implications for his Department's policies of the costs of decarbonisation requirements for any steel undertaking transferred under the Steel Nationalisation Bill.

Answer

Answered by Chris McDonald, 14 Jul 2026

If the powers contained in the SIN bill to transfer ownership of a steel undertaking were used, a full assessment of the costs of doing so and the relevance to the public interest would be undertaken. This would include any costs arising from environmenta...