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UK Steel Industry

Proceeding contribution from Anna Soubry (Conservative) in the House of Commons on Thursday, 21 January 2016. It occurred during Backbench debate on UK Steel Industry.

I cannot give the hon. Gentleman an answer to that, but I can say that every Department needs great leadership, and I am delighted that Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has exactly the sort of great Conservative leadership it needs.

I get slightly cheesed off at nonsense about the Government not being joined up and not working together. That could not be further from the truth. The current level and degree of co-operation within Government has never been seen before. I can give many examples of exactly where the Government are joined up. I am particularly proud of my working relationship with Ministers in the Department of Energy and Climate

Change, for example. We get on well and work well together. At the moment we are looking at why too few of our steel fabricators buy British steel. We are doing a piece of work on the supply chains to see how we can ensure that British steel is bought all the way through the supply chains.

The fourth ask made of the steel industry was on procurement. We are the first EU country—

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
604 cc695-6WH 
Session
2015-16
Chamber / Committee
Westminster Hall
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