Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what estimate he has made of the level of UK-produced steel procured by his Department and associated departmental public bodies and agencies in (a) 2019-20 and (b) 2020-21.
The Government is working with the steel industry, the unions and devolved administrations to support the United Kingdom’s steel sector to develop a long-term sustainable future. This includes making sure that United Kingdom producers of steel have the best possible chance of competing for and winning contracts across all Government procurement.
The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) collates and publishes annually information on how much steel is purchased for Government’s major infrastructure projects in the previous financial year, including what proportion is United Kingdom-produced.
We expect to publish the 2019/20 data later this year, and will start collating the data on United Kingdom steel procured in 2020/21.