In Parliament - Jonathan Reynolds MP

Steel Industry (Special Measures) Bill

Commons debates

Steel Industry (Special Measures) Bill

Commons debates

Will the right hon. Lady give way on that point?

Steel Industry (Special Measures) Bill

Commons debates

This is such an important point, and I will be exceptionally brief, but the right hon. Gentleman knows from debates that he and I have been in that I am obsessed with the issue of industrial...

Steel Industry (Special Measures) Bill

Commons debates

I am extremely grateful to the hon. Gentleman for putting that point on the record. It is precisely because of those concerns that we were able to have ready a legal route to intervene to...

Steel Industry (Special Measures) Bill

Commons debates

As I tried to articulate in my opening speech on Second Reading, I understand the gravity of the situation, which gives puts some context to the demands for further powers to be included in the...

Steel Industry (Special Measures) Bill

Commons debates

The hon. Member puts it extremely well, if I may say so. The people who have upheld steel as the backbone of construction in the UK for decades deserve better treatment than they would have had...

Steel Industry (Special Measures) Bill

Commons debates

I will give way one last time.

Steel Industry (Special Measures) Bill

Commons debates

The hon. Lady will know that the company brought into question whether that coal was the right grade for blast furnace supplies. I remember several debates in this place about that. I should also...

Steel Industry (Special Measures) Bill

Commons debates

I am really grateful that my hon. Friend has been able to put that point on the record for his community, to avoid the kind of situation we have seen in lots of industrial communities, to be...

Steel Industry (Special Measures) Bill

Commons debates

Our friends in the press will follow that up and find out exactly how much money the Leader of the Opposition secretly promised to Jingye to transfer those jobs out of Scunthorpe. I think it...

Steel Industry (Special Measures) Bill

Commons debates

This is genuinely revelatory. I say again: if Jingye’s request was for £1.2 billion to build at lesser cost in one place, what was the sum of money agreed by the Leader of the...

Steel Industry (Special Measures) Bill

Commons debates

This is an excellent chance to clarify that. If the Leader of the Opposition agreed a deal with Jingye to cause massive job losses in Scunthorpe and transfer the jobs to a completely different...

Steel Industry (Special Measures) Bill

Commons debates

If such a deal was negotiated, somehow in secret, I ask the Leader of the Opposition to say how much money she agreed to give Jingye for this deal and what conditions were placed on it. To state...

Steel Industry (Special Measures) Bill

Commons debates

We remain in close engagement with all the unions, which have been monitoring the situation closely. Again, I reiterate that the Bill is not in itself about a change of ownership; it is about a...

Steel Industry (Special Measures) Bill

Commons debates

I will take one more intervention.

Steel Industry (Special Measures) Bill

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I think I must progress, Mr Speaker. I can see your indication to do so.

Steel Industry (Special Measures) Bill

Commons debates

I do not want to embarrass the right hon. Lady, but the blast furnaces have already closed at Port Talbot. They are not available to be saved —that situation has moved on. Let me stress...

Steel Industry (Special Measures) Bill

Commons debates

I believe that that is on the record. I hope to convince all colleagues today to support this action, which is in the national interest.

Steel Industry (Special Measures) Bill

Commons debates

I am incredibly pleased to have the chance to answer the point my hon. Friend raises. The Port Talbot deal was originally negotiated by the previous Government. I did try to reopen it; I went to...

Steel Industry (Special Measures) Bill

Commons debates

I endorse my hon. Friend’s comments entirely. I do not believe there is a history of the SNP calling for the nationalisation of Grangemouth. It was, as ever, on the bandwagon. I think we...