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Meeting of the Parliament 17 March 2016

17 Mar 2016 · S4 · Meeting of the Parliament
Item of business
General Question Time
Steel Industry (Support)
Ewing, Fergus SNP Inverness and Nairn Watch on SPTV

I chair the multi-agency Scottish steel task force, which was convened immediately after Tata Steel’s announcement that it planned to mothball its Scottish steel plants. The task force brings together the company, trade unions, local authorities, Government agencies and local elected representatives. The task force is doing everything within the power of the Scottish Government and its partners to support the continuation of Scotland’s steel industry and a viable future for the steel plants at Dalzell and Clydebridge. We have made significant progress in five key areas—business rates, energy costs, support for staff, environmental matters and procurement—which are all aimed at supporting our ambition to see an alternative operator on those sites.

In the same item of business

5. Clare Adamson (Central Scotland) (SNP) SNP
To ask the Scottish Government what it is doing to support the steel industry. (S4O-05680)
The Minister for Business, Energy and Tourism (Fergus Ewing) SNP
I chair the multi-agency Scottish steel task force, which was convened immediately after Tata Steel’s announcement that it planned to mothball its Scottish s...
Clare Adamson SNP
The minister will be aware that I attended a European Commission conference on fuel-intensive industries and heard the concerns of the industry across Europe...
Fergus Ewing SNP
I share Clare Adamson’s concerns. There is a need for urgent action by both the UK Government and the European Union, and we continue to press the UK Governm...
John Pentland (Motherwell and Wishaw) (Lab) Lab
Although that is appreciated, the key question is not what the Scottish Government has done but where it is going. It is now more than five months since Tata...
Fergus Ewing SNP
John Pentland also sits on the task force, which is a non-political body, and we have all been working together. I am not sure that I accept his characterisa...