Nicholas Dakin
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(8 years, 11 months ago)
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Sajid Javid
Let me commend my hon. Friend on her efforts to encourage businesses in her constituency to export more to China. While exports to China have doubled in the last five years, there is a lot of potential and a lot more that we can do. The recent visit by the Chinese President helped to highlight that, and the effort that my hon. Friend is making with UK Trade & Investment, the China-Britain Business Council and others provides an example to us all.
Nic Dakin (Scunthorpe) (Lab)
What steps has the Secretary of State taken since the steel summit to increase trade opportunities for the UK steel sector?
Sajid Javid
The hon. Gentleman makes an important point. The more we can export of higher-value steel products, the more we can help. We have been discussing this with UKTI and steel producers. We are coming up with a plan, and this will certainly feature in the trade meetings we have in due course.