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HANSARDSpeciality Steel UK: InsolvencyThe right hon. Gentleman should perhaps go for a tour and see what the speciality is, but it is defence, aerospace and industrial engineering on the Stocksbridge site. The…02 Sept 2025HANSARDSpeciality Steel UK: InsolvencyOf course. I share that gratitude for those amazing colleagues who stand up for what they know to be right and sensible. We are protecting not something that is not worth…02 Sept 2025HANSARDSpeciality Steel UK: InsolvencyThank you, Mr Speaker. I will just say that we have very much stood with the workers of Grangemouth. We are investing, through the National Wealth Fund, £200 million to support…02 Sept 2025HANSARDSpeciality Steel UK: InsolvencyYes, within the parameters of what we can do legally, in terms of subsidies. We are ensuring, and the Cabinet Office is keen to ensure, that when we spend public money, we buy…02 Sept 2025HANSARDSpeciality Steel UK: InsolvencyThe hon. Gentleman is right to point out the importance of our defence industry and the need for us to support it. Of course, the industrial strategy outlined eight growth-driving…02 Sept 2025HANSARDSpeciality Steel UK: InsolvencyMy hon. Friend and I have spoken many times about this—she is such a champion for the industry, as are many colleagues. She is right to point to the importance to the country of…02 Sept 2025HANSARDSpeciality Steel UK: InsolvencyThe right hon. Gentleman makes a good point. Of course, our energy prices are too high and it is difficult for companies to compete. We are taking action to address that, in the…02 Sept 2025HANSARDSpeciality Steel UK: InsolvencyI thank my hon. Friend for those remarks; they are gratefully received, and we will continue to do all we can to support the steel industry. She is absolutely right that a number…02 Sept 2025HANSARDSpeciality Steel UK: InsolvencyI thank the hon. Gentleman for his kind words. He is right to point to the supply chain and the need for us to support not just the key industries, but the whole network of small…02 Sept 2025HANSARDSpeciality Steel UK: InsolvencyUK manufacturing suffered under the previous Government, who had no strategy, did not really believe in it and allowed thousands of jobs to be lost across a range of different…02 Sept 2025HANSARDSpeciality Steel UK: InsolvencyI thank my right hon. Friend for those helpful questions. He reminded me that the shadow Minister had asked about the US. Of course, we are in a position where the world has…02 Sept 2025HANSARDSpeciality Steel UK: InsolvencyIndustrial energy prices doubled under the previous Government. The right hon. Gentleman knows that the impact of the Ukraine war on our energy prices highlighted how we are…02 Sept 2025HANSARDSpeciality Steel UK: InsolvencyAs the hon. Gentleman knows, Dalzell is a separate legal entity, so it is not affected, but he is right to worry about the overall situation and its possible impact on the…02 Sept 2025HANSARDSpeciality Steel UK: InsolvencyThank you, Mr Speaker. I shall just explain to the shadow Minister how the system works. The Government have not taken over control. That is not the process of the official…02 Sept 2025HANSARDSpeciality Steel UK: InsolvencyLiberty Pipes is separate and is not part of this situation at all. Of course, there will be concern in the wider group about the impact—I understand that—but at the moment, there…02 Sept 2025HANSARDSpeciality Steel UK: InsolvencyI thank the hon. Lady for her remarks. She is right to ask about how we ensure that this nationally strategic asset is protected, and we are doing that. I have just set out the…02 Sept 2025HANSARDSpeciality Steel UK: InsolvencyAs the hon. Lady will know, one of the blast furnaces had already closed by the time we came into government. We had long conversations with Tata about a different model that we…02 Sept 2025HANSARDLiberty Speciality Steels UK: Contingent LiabilityI have laid before Parliament a departmental minute setting out the particulars of a new contingent liability associated with Liberty Speciality Steels UK. Speciality Steels UK…01 Sept 2025HANSARDBritish SteelThe Government committed to updating Parliament on British Steel every four sitting weeks for the duration of the period of special measures being applied under the Steel Industry…01 Sept 2025HANSARDNetwork Charging Compensation Scheme UpliftI can today announce to the House that the Government are taking the next step in delivering one of the commitments made in our modern industrial strategy, by beginning a…21 Jul 2025