Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Louise Haigh and Alun Cairns

Wednesday 19th October 2016 Commons Chamber

[Alun Cairns]

I welcome the hon. Gentleman and his hon. Friend the shadow Secretary of State to their positions. He makes an important point on steel-making capacity and energy costs. He will be well aware that the energy-intensive industry package the Government have brought forward responded to the demands from the industry and from Tata specifically. We have reduced energy costs to the steel sector by £109 million, which has been welcomed and has put the sector in a much stronger position, with a turnaround in finance from a loss of £64 million to an operating profit of £95 million.

[Louise Haigh (Sheffield, Heeley) (Lab)]

7. What discussions he has had with the Welsh Government on the Arriva Trains franchise renewal.