Skip to main content

Industry representatives and MPs questioned on UK steel

27 October 2015

The Business, Innovation and Skills Committee takes evidence from steel industry representatives and MPs following the Tata steel redundancies.

Witnesses

Tuesday 27 October, Wilson Room, Portcullis House

At 4.10pm

  • Tor Farquhar, Group Human Resources Director, Tata Steel Europe
  • Luis Sanz, CEO, Celsa Steel UK
  • Gareth Stace, Director, UKSteel
  • Roy Rickhuss, General Secretary, Community

At 5pm  

  • Tom Blenkinsop MP
  • Nia Griffith MP

At 5.25pm

  • Rt Hon Anna Soubry MP, Minister for Small Business, Industry and Enterprise
  • Stuart Edwards, Deputy Director, Materials and Resource Industries, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

Chair's comments

Iain Wright MP, Chair of the BIS Committee said:

"The UK's steel industry has been dealt a series of major blows in recent weeks and months. It is facing terminal decline, even though it is an essential foundation for other parts of our economy like aerospace, construction and automotives.

As a Committee we will be pressing the Government to explain what action it is taking now to help the steel industry through this crisis and its plans to support the industry as part of a competitive and dynamic manufacturing sector in the long term."

Further information 

Image: iStockphoto