Dame Harriett Baldwin corrected the Commons record on Defence Procurement: Steel Industry
The words were spoken in the Commons on 12 September 2016. The correction was made by letter from Harriett Baldwin, and printed in Hansard's Written Corrections on 11 October 2016. The corrected text adds the figure 95,000, which the original did not give. Altogether 10 words differ between the two versions.
The question
Now that Government Departments are mandated to provide information about the proportion of UK steel used in the Crown Commercial Service, will the Minister please tell the House what percentage of UK steel is used in current defence projects and what percentage will be used in future?
Original and corrected words
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| The hon. Lady rightly speaks up for steel production in her constituency. She will be very pleased to know that, for the largest project that the UK Government have ever procured that uses steel—she will be aware that that is the carrier programme currently under construction | The hon. Lady rightly speaks up for steel production in her constituency. She will be very pleased to know that, for the largest project that the UK Government have ever procured that uses steel—she will be aware that that is the carrier programme currently under construction in Rosyth —the vast majority comes from Tata Steel. I believe it is 95,000 tonnes . |
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Receipt
| Read from | https://hansard-api.parliament.uk/debates/debate/ABBA5BBA-6953-478E-BE2E-DD09DDFEEE9F.json |
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| Date read | 15 October 2026 |
| SHA-256 | 4258d5203fdd7bcdf1c07ba20db730a394315c39740ecf23bb3648e9d69776b4 |