The Business Secretary has launched the Plan for Steel Consultation, seeking views from stakeholders to inform development of the Steel Strategy. This consultation closes at 11:59pm on 30 March 2025
The government will publish a steel strategy in spring 2025. This consultation seeks views on the challenges and opportunities presented to the sector, to inform the development of the steel strategy.
British steelmakers are being backed by the Government as the Business Secretary launches the Plan for Steel Consultation.
This will look at the long-term issues facing the industry like high electricity costs, unfair trading practices, and scrap metal recycling – to protect jobs and living standards in the UK’s industrial heartlands.
The Plan for Steel will help with the issues which have been holding the industry back for too long. It will look at ways to:
- Identify where there are opportunities to expand UK steelmaking to better support UK manufacturing, construction, infrastructure and growth – and secure UK jobs and livelihoods
- Protect the steel sector from unfair trading practices abroad
- Improve our scrap processing facilities so they can best support the steel-making of the future
- Encourage high usage of UK-made steel in public projects
The Plan will also look at ways to improve the UK’s scrap metal processing capabilities, in light of the industry’s ongoing transition to electric arc furnace (EAF) steelmaking which recycles scrap steel by melting it to produce high-quality steel and other metals.
The Steel Strategy will also explore what can be done to protect the steel sector from unfair trading practices abroad and look at how it can attract and retain skilled talent in the UK. It will leverage the UK’s world-leading research and development capabilities to support the industry, aligning closely with the Government’s Trade Strategy, Strategic Defence Review and its upcoming Industrial Strategy.