Protecting Steel in the UK — 23 Jan 2024 at 18:51
That this House recognises the need to decarbonise steel production; appreciates the pride that local communities have in their historic steelworks; regrets that the Government has pushed through plans for decarbonising steel in the UK which will result in thousands of steelworkers losing their jobs and risk leaving the UK as the first developed country in the world without the capacity to produce primary steel; further regrets that the Government has failed to produce an industrial strategy which could have included a plan for the whole steel sector; believes that primary steel is a sovereign capability and is therefore concerned about the impact that the Government’s plans could have on national security; also believes that steel production can have a bright future in the UK; therefore calls on the Government to work with industry and workers to achieve a transition that secures jobs and primary steelmaking for decades to come; and further calls on the Secretary of State for Business and Trade to report to Parliament by 27 February 2024 with an assessment of the impact on the UK of the loss of primary steel production capabilities.
“The question for Tata and the UK Government is this-do we want to be a nation that makes goods, or a nation that imports them from heavily polluting countries? It is not too late for Tata and the UK Government to think again and change course, but time is…running out. If they fail to take a different path now, the people of South Wales will never forgive them, and history won’t forgive them either. There is so much at stake for all of us.”
“It is an absolute disgrace that Tata Steel, and the UK Government, appear intent on pursuing the cheapest instead of the best plan for our industry, our steelworkers and our country.”
“The UK’s industrial policy…has been characterised by frequent policy reversals and announcements, driven by political cycles”,
“multiple…public bodies, departments and levels of government…responsible for delivery.”
“The government needs to invest in British industry in order to defend workers and communities as well as our industrial base and our national security. Instead, they are giving Tata hundreds of millions of pounds to fund their plan to cut jobs, cut capacity and give more business to their plants in other countries, like India and the Netherlands. How is that acceptable?”
“for national security reasons alone, we must ensure that we retain the capability to make virgin steel in this country”.
“obviously, we need a place for virgin steel, and that is in her constituency.”-[Official Report, 18 September 2023; Vol. 737, c. 1125.]
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Stephen Kinnock | Aberavon | Lab (minister) | aye |
Kirsty Blackman | Aberdeen North | SNP (front bench) | aye |
Stephen Flynn | Aberdeen South | SNP (front bench) | aye |
Mark Tami | Alyn and Deeside | Lab (minister) | aye |
Hywel Williams | Arfon | PC (front bench) | aye |
Brendan O'Hara | Argyll and Bute | SNP (front bench) | aye |
Angela Rayner | Ashton-under-Lyne | Lab (minister) | aye |
Allan Dorans | Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock | SNP (front bench) | aye |
Margaret Hodge | Barking | Lab (minister) | aye |
Dan Jarvis | Barnsley Central | Lab (minister) | aye |
Wera Hobhouse | Bath | LDem (front bench) | aye |
Kim Leadbeater | Batley and Spen | Lab (minister) | aye |
Marsha de Cordova | Battersea | Lab (minister) | aye |
Gavin Robinson | Belfast East | DUP (front bench) | aye |
Claire Hanna | Belfast South | SDLP (front bench) | aye |
Rushanara Ali | Bethnal Green and Bow | Lab (minister) | aye |
Mick Whitley | Birkenhead | Lab (minister) | aye |
Preet Kaur Gill | Birmingham, Edgbaston | Lab (minister) | aye |
Paulette Hamilton | Birmingham, Erdington | Lab (minister) | aye |
Tahir Ali | Birmingham, Hall Green | Lab (minister) | aye |
Liam Byrne | Birmingham, Hodge Hill | Lab (minister) | aye |
Khalid Mahmood | Birmingham, Perry Barr | Lab | aye |
Steve McCabe | Birmingham, Selly Oak | Lab (minister) | aye |
Jess Phillips | Birmingham, Yardley | Lab (minister) | aye |
Kate Hollern | Blackburn | Lab (minister) | aye |
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Nick Smith | Blaenau Gwent | Lab (minister) | aye |
Liz Twist | Blaydon | Lab (minister) | aye |
Yasmin Qureshi | Bolton South East | Lab | aye |
Peter Dowd | Bootle | Lab (minister) | aye |
Imran Hussain | Bradford East | Lab | aye |
Judith Cummins | Bradford South | Lab (minister) | aye |
Naseem Shah | Bradford West | Lab | aye |
Dawn Butler | Brent Central | Lab (minister) | aye |
Barry Gardiner | Brent North | Lab (minister) | aye |
Ruth Cadbury | Brentford and Isleworth | Lab (minister) | aye |
Lloyd Russell-Moyle | Brighton, Kemptown | Lab (minister) | aye |
Caroline Lucas | Brighton, Pavilion | Green (front bench) | aye |
Kerry McCarthy | Bristol East | Lab (minister) | aye |
Karin Smyth | Bristol South | Lab (minister) | aye |
Christian Wakeford | Bury South | whilst Lab (front bench) | tellaye |
Wayne David | Caerphilly | Lab (minister) | aye |
Jamie Stone | Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross | LDem (front bench) | aye |
Harriet Harman | Camberwell and Peckham | Lab (minister) | aye |
Daniel Zeichner | Cambridge | Lab (minister) | aye |
Rosie Duffield | Canterbury | Lab (minister) | aye |
Jo Stevens | Cardiff Central | Lab (minister) | aye |
Anna McMorrin | Cardiff North | Lab (minister) | aye |
Stephen Doughty | Cardiff South and Penarth | Lab (minister) | aye |
Kevin Brennan | Cardiff West | Lab (minister) | aye |
Jonathan Edwards | Carmarthen East and Dinefwr | whilst Independent (front bench) | aye |
Philippa Whitford | Central Ayrshire | SNP | aye |
Ben Lake | Ceredigion | PC (front bench) | aye |
Sarah Green | Chesham and Amersham | LDem (front bench) | aye |
Samantha Dixon | City of Chester | Lab (minister) | aye |
Mary Foy | City of Durham | Lab (minister) | aye |
Colleen Fletcher | Coventry North East | Lab (minister) | aye |
Taiwo Owatemi | Coventry North West | Lab (minister) | aye |
Zarah Sultana | Coventry South | Lab | aye |
Sarah Jones | Croydon Central | Lab (minister) | aye |
Steve Reed | Croydon North | Lab (minister) | aye |
Stuart McDonald | Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East | SNP | aye |
Andrew Gwynne | Denton and Reddish | Lab (minister) | aye |
Margaret Beckett | Derby South | Lab (minister) | aye |
Ed Miliband | Doncaster North | Lab (minister) | aye |
Helen Hayes | Dulwich and West Norwood | Lab (minister) | aye |
Stewart Hosie | Dundee East | SNP (front bench) | aye |
Chris Law | Dundee West | SNP (front bench) | aye |
Douglas Chapman | Dunfermline and West Fife | SNP (front bench) | aye |
Liz Saville-Roberts | Dwyfor Meirionnydd | PC (front bench) | aye |
Rupa Huq | Ealing Central and Acton | Lab (minister) | aye |
James Murray | Ealing North | Lab (minister) | aye |
Virendra Sharma | Ealing, Southall | Lab (minister) | aye |
Grahame Morris | Easington | Lab (minister) | aye |
Amy Callaghan | East Dunbartonshire | SNP (front bench) | aye |
Stephen Timms | East Ham | Lab (minister) | aye |
Gregory Campbell | East Londonderry | DUP (front bench) | aye |
Kirsten Oswald | East Renfrewshire | SNP (front bench) | aye |
Deidre Brock | Edinburgh North and Leith | SNP (front bench) | aye |
Ian Murray | Edinburgh South | Lab (minister) | aye |
Joanna Cherry | Edinburgh South West | SNP (front bench) | aye |
Christine Jardine | Edinburgh West | LDem (front bench) | aye |
Kate Osamor | Edmonton | Lab (minister) | aye |
Justin Madders | Ellesmere Port and Neston | Lab (minister) | aye |
Clive Efford | Eltham | Lab (minister) | aye |
Abena Oppong-Asare | Erith and Thamesmead | Lab (minister) | aye |
Ben Bradshaw | Exeter | Lab (minister) | aye |
John McNally | Falkirk | SNP (front bench) | aye |
Seema Malhotra | Feltham and Heston | Lab (minister) | aye |
Colum Eastwood | Foyle | SDLP | aye |
Alison Thewliss | Glasgow Central | SNP (front bench) | aye |
David Linden | Glasgow East | SNP (front bench) | aye |
Patrick Grady | Glasgow North | SNP (front bench) | aye |
Carol Monaghan | Glasgow North West | SNP (front bench) | aye |
Chris Stephens | Glasgow South West | SNP (front bench) | aye |
Richard Thomson | Gordon | SNP (front bench) | aye |
Matthew Pennycook | Greenwich and Woolwich | Lab (minister) | aye |
Diane Abbott | Hackney North and Stoke Newington | whilst Independent (front bench) | aye |
Meg Hillier | Hackney South and Shoreditch | Lab (minister) | aye |
Holly Lynch | Halifax | Lab (minister) | tellno |
Derek Twigg | Halton | Lab (minister) | aye |
Andrew Slaughter | Hammersmith | Lab (minister) | aye |
Tulip Siddiq | Hampstead and Kilburn | Lab (minister) | aye |
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John Martin McDonnell | Hayes and Harlington | Lab (minister) | aye |
Jon Trickett | Hemsworth | Lab | aye |
Keir Starmer | Holborn and St Pancras | Lab (minister) | aye |
Catherine West | Hornsey and Wood Green | Lab (minister) | aye |
Bridget Phillipson | Houghton and Sunderland South | Lab (minister) | aye |
Barry Sheerman | Huddersfield | Lab | aye |
Sam Tarry | Ilford South | Lab | aye |
Ronnie Cowan | Inverclyde | SNP (front bench) | aye |
Drew Hendry | Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey | SNP (front bench) | aye |
Chris Evans | Islwyn | Lab (minister) | aye |
Alan Brown | Kilmarnock and Loudoun | SNP (front bench) | aye |
Edward Davey | Kingston and Surbiton | LDem (front bench) | aye |
Karl Turner | Kingston upon Hull East | Lab (minister) | aye |
Diana R. Johnson | Kingston upon Hull North | Lab (minister) | aye |
Emma Hardy | Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle | Lab (minister) | aye |
George Howarth | Knowsley | Lab (minister) | aye |
Jeffrey M. Donaldson | Lagan Valley | DUP (front bench) | aye |
Angela Crawley | Lanark and Hamilton East | SNP | aye |
Cat Smith | Lancaster and Fleetwood | Lab (minister) | aye |
Hilary Benn | Leeds Central | Lab (minister) | aye |
Richard Burgon | Leeds East | Lab (minister) | aye |
Fabian Hamilton | Leeds North East | Lab (minister) | aye |
Alex Sobel | Leeds North West | Lab (minister) | aye |
Rachel Reeves | Leeds West | Lab (minister) | aye |
Jon Ashworth | Leicester South | Lab (minister) | aye |
Liz Kendall | Leicester West | Lab (minister) | aye |
Janet Daby | Lewisham East | Lab (minister) | aye |
John Cryer | Leyton and Wanstead | Lab (minister) | aye |
Martyn Day | Linlithgow and East Falkirk | SNP (front bench) | aye |
Kim Johnson | Liverpool, Riverside | Lab (minister) | aye |
Dan Carden | Liverpool, Walton | Lab (minister) | aye |
Paula Barker | Liverpool, Wavertree | Lab (minister) | aye |
Ian Byrne | Liverpool, West Derby | Lab (minister) | aye |
Nia Griffith | Llanelli | Lab (minister) | aye |
Sarah Owen | Luton North | Lab (minister) | aye |
Rachel Hopkins | Luton South | Lab (minister) | aye |
Yvonne Fovargue | Makerfield | Lab (minister) | aye |
Lucy Powell | Manchester Central | Lab (minister) | aye |
Afzal Khan | Manchester, Gorton | Lab | aye |
Jeff Smith | Manchester, Withington | Lab (minister) | tellaye |
Gerald Jones | Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney | Lab (minister) | aye |
Andy McDonald | Middlesbrough | Lab (minister) | aye |
Owen Thompson | Midlothian | SNP (front bench) | aye |
Marion Fellows | Motherwell and Wishaw | SNP (front bench) | aye |
Christina Rees | Neath | whilst Independent (front bench) | aye |
Chi Onwurah | Newcastle upon Tyne Central | Lab (minister) | aye |
Nick Brown | Newcastle upon Tyne East | whilst Independent | aye |
Catherine McKinnell | Newcastle upon Tyne North | Lab (minister) | aye |
Jessica Morden | Newport East | Lab (minister) | aye |
Ruth Jones | Newport West | Lab (minister) | aye |
Yvette Cooper | Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford | Lab (minister) | aye |
Patricia Gibson | North Ayrshire and Arran | SNP (front bench) | aye |
Stephen Farry | North Down | Alliance (front bench) | aye |
Kevan Jones | North Durham | Lab (minister) | aye |
Wendy Chamberlain | North East Fife | LDem (front bench) | aye |
Helen Morgan | North Shropshire | LDem (front bench) | aye |
Mary Glindon | North Tyneside | Lab (minister) | aye |
Clive Lewis | Norwich South | Lab (minister) | aye |
Nadia Whittome | Nottingham East | Lab (minister) | aye |
Alex Norris | Nottingham North | Lab (minister) | aye |
Lilian Greenwood | Nottingham South | Lab (minister) | aye |
John Nicolson | Ochil and South Perthshire | SNP (front bench) | aye |
Chris Elmore | Ogmore | Lab (minister) | aye |
Debbie Abrahams | Oldham East and Saddleworth | Lab (minister) | aye |
Jim McMahon | Oldham West and Royton | Lab (minister) | aye |
Alistair Carmichael | Orkney and Shetland | LDem (front bench) | aye |
Anneliese Dodds | Oxford East | Lab (minister) | aye |
Layla Moran | Oxford West and Abingdon | LDem (front bench) | aye |
Gavin Newlands | Paisley and Renfrewshire North | SNP (front bench) | aye |
Mhairi Black | Paisley and Renfrewshire South | SNP (front bench) | aye |
Luke Pollard | Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport | Lab (minister) | aye |
Alex Davies-Jones | Pontypridd | Lab (minister) | aye |
Apsana Begum | Poplar and Limehouse | Lab (minister) | aye |
Stephen Morgan | Portsmouth South | Lab (minister) | aye |
Fleur Anderson | Putney | Lab (minister) | aye |
Matt Rodda | Reading East | Lab (minister) | aye |
Sarah Olney | Richmond Park | LDem (front bench) | aye |
Ian Blackford | Ross, Skye and Lochaber | SNP | aye |
Sarah Champion | Rotherham | Lab (minister) | aye |
Michael Shanks | Rutherglen and Hamilton West | Lab (minister) | aye |
Rebecca Long-Bailey | Salford and Eccles | Lab (minister) | aye |
Paul Blomfield | Sheffield Central | Lab (minister) | aye |
Clive Betts | Sheffield South East | Lab (minister) | aye |
Gill Furniss | Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough | Lab (minister) | aye |
Olivia Blake | Sheffield, Hallam | Lab (minister) | aye |
Louise Haigh | Sheffield, Heeley | Lab (minister) | aye |
Sarah Dyke | Somerton and Frome | LDem | aye |
Paul Girvan | South Antrim | DUP (front bench) | aye |
Emma Lewell-Buck | South Shields | Lab (minister) | aye |
Alan Whitehead | Southampton, Test | Lab (minister) | aye |
Daisy Cooper | St Albans | LDem (front bench) | aye |
Marie Rimmer | St Helens South and Whiston | Lab (minister) | aye |
Jonathan Reynolds | Stalybridge and Hyde | Lab (minister) | aye |
Alyn Smith | Stirling | SNP (front bench) | aye |
Navendu Mishra | Stockport | Lab (minister) | aye |
Alex Cunningham | Stockton North | Lab (minister) | aye |
Jim Shannon | Strangford | DUP (front bench) | aye |
Bell Ribeiro-Addy | Streatham | Lab (minister) | aye |
Andrew Western | Stretford and Urmston | Lab (minister) | tellno |
Julie Elliott | Sunderland Central | Lab (minister) | aye |
Carolyn Harris | Swansea East | Lab (minister) | aye |
Sarah Edwards | Tamworth | Lab (minister) | aye |
Rosena Allin-Khan | Tooting | Lab (minister) | aye |
Nick Thomas-Symonds | Torfaen | Lab (minister) | aye |
Alan Campbell | Tynemouth | Lab (minister) | aye |
Florence Eshalomi | Vauxhall | Lab (minister) | aye |
Valerie Vaz | Walsall South | Lab (minister) | aye |
Stella Creasy | Walthamstow | Lab | aye |
Ian Lavery | Wansbeck | Lab (minister) | aye |
John Spellar | Warley | Lab (minister) | aye |
Charlotte Nichols | Warrington North | Lab (minister) | aye |
Matt Western | Warwick and Leamington | Lab (minister) | aye |
Sharon Hodgson | Washington and Sunderland West | Lab (minister) | aye |
Mike Amesbury | Weaver Vale | Lab (minister) | aye |
John Healey | Wentworth and Dearne | Lab (minister) | aye |
Martin Docherty | West Dunbartonshire | SNP (front bench) | aye |
Lyn Brown | West Ham | Lab (minister) | aye |
Ashley Dalton | West Lancashire | Lab (minister) | aye |
Lisa Nandy | Wigan | Lab (minister) | aye |
Alison McGovern | Wirral South | Lab (minister) | aye |
Margaret Greenwood | Wirral West | Lab (minister) | aye |
Pat McFadden | Wolverhampton South East | Lab (minister) | aye |
Mike Kane | Wythenshawe and Sale East | Lab (minister) | aye |
Rachael Maskell | York Central | Lab (minister) | aye |