Steel Industry (Special Measures) Bill Debate
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Nick Smith
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Steel Industry (Special Measures) Bill
Nick Smith ExcerptsSaturday 12th April 2025
(1 week, 5 days ago)
Commons ChamberRead Full debate Steel Industry (Special Measures) Act 2024-26 Read Hansard Text Read Debate Ministerial Extracts Amendment Paper: HL Bill 94-I Marshalled list for Committee - (12 Apr 2025)
Several hon. Members rose—
Nick Smith (Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney) (Lab)
I welcome the Government’s actions today. I thank my hon. Friend the Minister for Industry for all the hard work that she has put in to get us to this place. Does she agree with me that our future industrial strategy must contain an extended section on Government procurement for steel, so that British-produced steel has a fair crack of the whip in the future?
Sarah Jones
My hon. Friend is right that procurement has a key role to play in our industrial strategy in steel and beyond. We are working with colleagues in the Cabinet Office to ensure that that is the case. I speak to the hon. Member for Brigg and Immingham (Martin Vickers) about these issues regularly, as does the Secretary of State—