Peter Bone
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(9 years ago)
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Mr Speaker
Mr Bone, you have never had any trouble making yourself heard. Let us hear from you.
Mr Peter Bone (Wellingborough) (Con)
T4. Members on both sides of the House will be concerned about the steel crisis. Last Friday, at the steel summit, three taskforces were set up to help the steel industry. One of them is headed by the Paymaster General, so will he update the House on what progress has been made?
Matthew Hancock
I very much look forward to meeting the working group on procurement for steel later this week. It is absolutely critical that we make use of the new EU rules, which are only in place because this Government brought them in, to ensure that we consider not only the financial cost, but the wider economic benefit of buying British steel for British projects, and that is exactly what we are going to do.