Question to the Northern Ireland Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what assessment his Department has made of the effect on the Northern Ireland economy of the recent application of the 25 per cent steel tariff on steel movements from Great Britain to Northern Ireland.

The Government wrote to affected businesses to set out routes for bringing UK-origin and EU-origin steel into Northern Ireland tariff-free.

The Government also set out how relevant quotas can be accessed when businesses in Northern Ireland import steel from the rest of the world.

We will continue to engage on this issue with industry, the European Commission, and the Northern Ireland Executive.