Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether her predecessor had discussions with (a) his Indian counterpart and (b) other stakeholders on the production or procurement of steel when he visited India 9 -23 March 2023.

The then Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero visited Mumbai and New Delhi from 19-22 March 2023. The then Secretary of State did not discuss the production or procurement of steel with India’s Minister for Power and New and Renewable Energy, Raj Kumar Singh. He met a range of other government and business representatives during the visit, where discussion topics included the need to accelerate the pace of the transition to clean energy in hard-to-abate sectors like steel and cement.