Furnaces: Scunthorpe

(asked on 12th December 2025) - View Source

Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what estimate he has made of the cost of decommissioning the blast furnaces at the British Steel Limited Scunthorpe Steelworks.


Answered by
Chris McDonald Portrait
Chris McDonald
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
This question was answered on 17th December 2025

British Steel remains privately owned and estimated costs to decommission the blast furnaces is commercially sensitive information.

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