Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of Government support for the steel sector.

The Government recognises the vital role that the steel sector plays in our economy across all areas of the UK and has supported the steel sector extensively including providing over £600 million since 2013 to help with the costs of electricity. We will continue to work with the sector to support their low carbon decarbonisation.

My Rt. Hon. Friend the Secretary of State and I have regular engagement with the sector and trade unions to discuss the sector and Government support for it. We reconvened the Steel Council in 2021, which had its fifth meeting on 21 February.