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582125

registered interest
date	12/09/2016
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Iron and Steel: Manufacturing Industries
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether it remains Government policy to (a) offer specific financial support to the UK steel industry and (b) take a 25 per cent equity stake in Tata Steel.
tabling member constituency	Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland
tabling member printed	Tom Blenkinsop
uin	46062
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/09/2016 answer text <p>The Government continues to make compensation payments to all Electricity Intensive Industries, including steel, for the policy costs in their electricity bills. To date we have paid the steel sector over £100 million. We continue to make significant progress in addressing the wider challenges faced by the steel sector, and are working through the Steel Council to ensure the efforts of the sector itself, the Trade Unions, and the Government are all targeted in the right areas.</p><p> </p><p>We are also continuing to work with Tata, the Welsh Government and Trade Unions to support commercial discussions on the future of the company’s remaining UK assets.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 26/09/2016 10:36:01 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd previous answer version 11811 answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4037 label Biography information for Tom Blenkinsop

598360

registered interest
date	10/10/2016
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Iron and Steel
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what change there has been in the UK's share of global steel output over the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland
tabling member printed	Tom Blenkinsop
uin	47799
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2016 answer text <table><tbody><tr><td rowspan="2"><p>Year</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>Crude steel production (thousand tonnes)</p></td><td rowspan="2"><p>UK share of global crude steel production</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Global</p></td><td><p>UK</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>1,538,003</p></td><td><p>9,478</p></td><td><p>0.62%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>1,560,131</p></td><td><p>9,579</p></td><td><p>0.61%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>1,650,354</p></td><td><p>11,858</p></td><td><p>0.72%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>1,670,145</p></td><td><p>12,120</p></td><td><p>0.73%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>1,620,900</p></td><td><p>10,860</p></td><td><p>0.67%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Source: World Steel Association Statistics</p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p> </p><p>1 – The figures above show the production of crude steel and cover all qualities made (carbon, stainless, other alloy).</p><p> </p><p>2 – Data for global production of crude steel in 2015 is provisional. Figures for global production are subject to revision.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 13/10/2016 14:42:07 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4037 label Biography information for Tom Blenkinsop

596157

registered interest
date	07/10/2016
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	British Steel: Pensions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of support for the British Steel Pension Scheme in securing the future of the UK steel industry; and what steps he is taking to support that scheme.
tabling member constituency	Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland
tabling member printed	Tom Blenkinsop
uin	47321
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2016 answer text <p>The Government is committed to achieving a sustainable long term future for the UK steel industry and has and is taking a wide range of action, working with the industry, to help achieve this goal. The British Steel Pension Scheme is a private pension scheme. Therefore, decisions on the future of this are a matter for the Trustees and the Company.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 19/10/2016 16:18:47 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4037 label Biography information for Tom Blenkinsop

600801

registered interest
date	12/10/2016
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Electricity: Prices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment his Department has made of the potential effect of proposed increases to electricity network costs on manufacturers.
tabling member constituency	Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland
tabling member printed	Tom Blenkinsop
uin	48454
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2016 answer text <p>The Government published in November 2014, an estimate of the projected electricity networks costs for households and small, medium and large businesses users, in Annex D of the <em>‘Estimated impacts of energy and climate change policies on energy prices and bills’.</em> These estimates reflect the eight year price control settlements that run from 2013 to 2021 (electricity transmission) and 2015 to 2023 (electricity distribution), as approved by the regulator, Ofgem.</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/384404/Prices__Bills_report_2014.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/384404/Prices__Bills_report_2014.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 27/10/2016 13:14:26 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4037 label Biography information for Tom Blenkinsop

600802

registered interest
date	12/10/2016
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Tata Steel
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether there has been a recent change to the policy that the Government would take a 25 per cent equity stake in Tata Steel's UK assets if a sale was necessary to secure the future of UK steel.
tabling member constituency	Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland
tabling member printed	Tom Blenkinsop
uin	48453
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/10/2016 answer text <p>There has been no change in the Government’s policy</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 31/10/2016 15:34:14 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4037 label Biography information for Tom Blenkinsop