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HANSARD UK Steel ManufacturingI thank my hon. Friend for that question. Steel is an incredibly important strategic industry for the UK and it will be saved under this Government from the decline that we saw…05 Sept 2024HANSARD UK Steel ManufacturingMy hon. Friend has hit the nail on the head, as I would expect him to. We face many challenges, but the grid is at the heart and soul of so many of them. When we met industry…05 Sept 2024HANSARD UK Steel ManufacturingI thank the right hon. Gentleman for his question. As I said, we are looking at DRI and other ways of making virgin steel that mean we can both— [ Interruption. ] I am happy to…05 Sept 2024HANSARD UK Steel ManufacturingI thank my hon. Friend and welcome him to his place. I can absolutely reassure him that we are working hand in glove with the Welsh Government and local leaders. I have talked to…05 Sept 2024HANSARD UK Steel ManufacturingI thank the right hon. Gentleman for his question. Of course, if we do not take measures to decarbonise and tackle the climate crisis, the costs to this country will be infinitely…05 Sept 2024HANSARD UK Steel ManufacturingI thank the hon. Member for that question. We need to be technology agnostic and look at what the new industries, the new developments and the new research are telling us. We are…05 Sept 2024HANSARD UK Steel ManufacturingI thank my hon. Friend for making those important points. Our energy-intensive industries are hammered by energy costs, which are at the heart of this. Although the previous…05 Sept 2024HANSARDElectric Vehicles: Chinese Share of MarketNo, it has not. The hon. Gentleman is chuntering again from a sedentary position. It has not asked for that. This is something we are monitoring. We will work closely with the…05 Sept 2024HANSARDElectric Vehicles: Chinese Share of MarketI thank the hon. Gentleman for his supplementary question. As I said, we are working closely with our colleagues across Government to make sure we have the right intelligence and…05 Sept 2024HANSARD UK Steel ManufacturingI welcome the right hon. Member for Croydon South (Chris Philp) to his place. As I have made clear, we have been landed with an inheritance in which steel has declined by 40% and…05 Sept 2024HANSARD UK Steel ManufacturingI thank the hon. Lady for a very sensible and thoughtful list of questions. We will be putting the Industrial Strategy Council on a statutory footing, which is important. The…05 Sept 2024HANSARD UK Steel ManufacturingMy hon. Friend, who is an expert in this area and with whom I have talked many times, will know that I agree with him. We need to introduce new entrants into the market, to…05 Sept 2024HANSARD UK Steel ManufacturingI thank the hon. Gentleman for his questions. Let me say a couple of things in response. First, the hon. Gentleman talked about being political. It is not being political to say…05 Sept 2024HANSARD UK Steel ManufacturingIt is hard to know where to begin in responding to that. The previous Government allowed steel to run down. The previous Government did not believe in an industrial strategy. The…05 Sept 2024HANSARD UK Steel ManufacturingI completely agree with my hon. Friend, who has much expertise in this area. The Department is working closely with the Ministry of Defence and the Secretary of State for Defence…05 Sept 2024HANSARD Aerospace Industry: Northern IrelandI am delighted that the hon. Member has intervened in his own Adjournment debate. I will be there at the UK stand tomorrow, and we will see what Northern Ireland has on display. I…22 Jul 2024HANSARD Aerospace Industry: Northern IrelandI welcome my hon. Friend to his place in this House. A really important aspect of the way that the Prime Minister has set about government is his telling us all that we must work…22 Jul 2024HANSARD Aerospace Industry: Northern IrelandI thank the hon. Member for his intervention. I am of course happy to visit whatever I can. One of the best ways of understanding the issues is to go and see things for myself,…22 Jul 2024HANSARD Aerospace Industry: Northern IrelandI thank the right hon. Gentleman for that intervention and for adding to my reading list, which is already quite substantial, as I am sure he can imagine. Our wonderful civil…22 Jul 2024HANSARD Aerospace Industry: Northern IrelandI thank the hon. Member for Strangford (Jim Shannon) for introducing this debate tonight. I had wondered who was going to intervene on him as he could not intervene on himself. I…22 Jul 2024