Industrial Strategy Consultation Debate

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Paul Flynn

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Industrial Strategy Consultation

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Local Government Finance Bill
Monday 23rd January 2017

(7 years, 10 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Greg Clark Portrait Greg Clark
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It runs through every page of the strategy.

Paul Flynn Portrait Paul Flynn (Newport West) (Lab)
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Newport has suffered grievously from the neglect of steel, but it is now having a mini-revival with the reopening of the site. Steel does not travel well or cheaply. Does the Secretary of State agree that if a new prosperity for manufacturing industry is to be created, it must be constructed on foundations of steel?

Greg Clark Portrait Greg Clark
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Steel is a very important sector, and it needs to compete in the world in which we find ourselves. The discussions that I have been having with the steel industry are based around a strategy that it is pulling together to make British steel competitive in the years ahead.

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