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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 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 Government on that. Clare Adamson has pressed all the issues at the meetings of the task force, every one of which she has attended.

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...