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HANSARDSteel Industry: WalesEnergy prices are a component. There is also the challenge that customers and users are seeking cleaner steel and the challenge of managing blast furnaces that are coming to the…21 Feb 2024HANSARDSteel Industry: WalesI will in a moment. Private companies in the UK steel industry are facing immense difficulties in turning a profit. In fact, without the opportunity to transition to a modem…21 Feb 2024HANSARDSteel Industry: WalesMy hon. Friend is far more knowledgeable on steel plants and steelmaking than I could ever be. The discussions continue. There is a consultation taking place. I was with the…21 Feb 2024HANSARDSteel Industry: WalesMy hon. Friend raises an important point. UK Steel and a number of other umbrella organisations have done a huge amount of work in this space, including with universities in…21 Feb 2024HANSARDSteel Industry: WalesVery briefly, because I am worried that I will run out of time.21 Feb 2024HANSARDSteel Industry: WalesIt is an absolute pleasure, Sir Gary, to serve under your chairmanship. I congratulate the hon. Member for Llanelli (Dame Nia Griffith) on securing this important debate and on…21 Feb 2024HANSARDSteel Industry: WalesI will go on to answer that point. We have provided support for the energy costs of high-energy industries, and the supercharger initiative is coming down the line, but I will…21 Feb 2024HANSARDSteel Industry: WalesThere is a queue.21 Feb 2024HANSARDSteel Industry: WalesI will in a moment. I am on record as having had a regular, constructive relationship, so it disappoints me when Members come to this place and do not accept the reality of what…21 Feb 2024HANSARDSteel Industry: WalesI thank my hon. Friend for putting that on the record. I am not sure what evidence the hon. Member for Croydon Central has that the plant would not have been under threat. When…21 Feb 2024HANSARDSteel Industry: WalesThere is a queue.21 Feb 2024HANSARDSteel Industry: WalesThe hon. Member always makes very thoughtful interventions. It is true that energy prices have spiked, partly because of what is happening in Ukraine, and that is most definitely…21 Feb 2024HANSARDSteel Industry: WalesThe hon. Gentleman has been at the same meetings as I have, so he knows that the blast furnaces cannot be going if we are to transition in a period of time to having the electric…21 Feb 2024HANSARDSteel Industry: WalesWe can look at the reality of a DRI plant at Port Talbot, as well as examples across the rest of the world. A DRI plant requires even fewer people. I was looking at a plant in…21 Feb 2024HANSARDSteel Industry: WalesI will make some progress before I take any further interventions. If the hon. Lady paid more attention to the business model, she would know that we cannot use more scrap steel…21 Feb 2024HANSARDSteel Industry: WalesThe hon. Gentleman knows better than most that these conversations and negotiations have been going on for years. The Labour party had an opportunity to invest in the blast…21 Feb 2024HANSARDSteel Industry: WalesI will give way to the hon. Member for Llanelli and then to my hon. Friend the Member for Scunthorpe (Holly Mumby-Croft).21 Feb 2024HANSARDSteel Industry: WalesThis is the last intervention.21 Feb 2024HANSARDSteel Industry: WalesWe cannot force Tata. We put the support package in place when Tata said that it was struggling and making losses of over £1 million a day, but we cannot insist that Tata…21 Feb 2024HANSARDSteel Industry: WalesThis is a decision for Tata to take. It has made it clear that the offers put forward by the unions are not really credible, because it does not think they enable a transition…21 Feb 2024