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HANSARD Steel Tariffs: Northern IrelandIf the hon. Member wants to write to me about how HMRC or the support is lacking, I would be happy to respond. Again, as I said, if he had been in the House last Thursday, he…30 Jun 2026HANSARD Steel Tariffs: Northern IrelandFirst, I note that the hon. Member’s first sentence started, “Yes, we want to protect steel production, but”—yet nobody wants us to take the measures that we believe are necessary…30 Jun 2026HANSARD Steel Tariffs: Northern IrelandWe have always said that we want to provide protection for the categories of steel that are manufactured in the UK and that people can source in the UK. That is our primary aim.…30 Jun 2026HANSARDComprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership: June 2026 UpdateIn Melbourne, Australia, at the 2025 comprehensive and progressive agreement for trans-Pacific partnership ministerial commission meeting…29 Jun 2026HANSARD Steel Trade MeasureThe right hon. Member says from a sedentary position that nothing will change. I am just trying to moderate his expectations of change, but obviously, if there is a very…25 Jun 2026HANSARD Steel Trade MeasureThat is an extremely well made point. Gun barrel manufacturing is being done in the UK again thanks to a Sheffield Forgemasters contract that has been secured. We need to bring…25 Jun 2026HANSARD Steel Trade MeasureI think the hon. Lady was confusing product codes and categories. If I start with 17, we have increased the quota by a significant amount. I hope that that will reflect the lack…25 Jun 2026HANSARD Steel Trade MeasureMy hon. Friend is right to defend her constituents’ interests. We have tried to meet the precise concerns that she raises. I would be happy to go through with her on Monday…25 Jun 2026HANSARD Steel Trade MeasureThe hon. Member will know that we changed the rules of the supercharger in April this year, taking the support from 60% to 90% of energy costs. The point is well made about energy…25 Jun 2026HANSARD Steel Trade MeasureMy officials and I have spoken a great deal to the kind of businesses that my hon. Friend is talking about—not all of them, but a large number of them—and have tried to explain…25 Jun 2026HANSARD Steel Trade MeasureThat is a fair point. We have tried to do two things. In key areas, we want to ensure that people can maintain historical trade flows, so we need to monitor how those trade flows…25 Jun 2026HANSARD Steel Trade MeasureI have never known a policy area that so depends on the granular detail of individual companies and individual codes and categories of different steel. I talked to people from one…25 Jun 2026HANSARD Steel Trade MeasureI think I am going to have to resign, because I agree with every single word of what the hon. Gentleman just said.25 Jun 2026HANSARD Steel Trade MeasureWith your permission, Madam Deputy Speaker, I wish to make a statement on our steel trade measure, which will come into force on Wednesday 1 July. Let me start with first…25 Jun 2026HANSARD Steel Trade MeasureI honestly just do not think that the hon. Gentleman understands how this works—any single element of it, to be honest. Let me first address his point about the timing. I would…25 Jun 2026HANSARD Steel Trade MeasureThe hon. Member makes a good point. This is why we have a steel strategy as well as the steel trade measure, which is only part of the steel strategy. The Under-Secretary of State…25 Jun 2026HANSARD Steel Trade MeasureThere is a very fetching photograph of my hon. Friend and me at the electric arc furnace at 7 Steel in Cardiff. It is a very impressive operation—it is a very impressive…25 Jun 2026HANSARD Steel Trade MeasureIf I had a bit of advice to my hon. Friend—I know he is relatively new to the House—I would not have favourites in one’s own constituency because then the other people who are not…25 Jun 2026HANSARD Steel Trade MeasureFurther to that point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. I am grateful for the correction. I am terribly sorry; I was only referring to the latter letter. We have had a lot of…25 Jun 2026HANSARD Steel Trade MeasureI am grateful for my hon. Friend’s comments, and I know that he has raised some of those issues with the Secretary of State and the Under-Secretary of State for Business and…25 Jun 2026