Speeches by Myer.

“I have seen in our all-party parliamentary group on steel and metals-related industries how my hon. Friend is such a tenacious and tireless champion for her part of the world and the steelworkers in it. She mentioned defence earlier in her speech. Does she agree with me that we really need the Government to bring forwa…”

“I have seen in our all-party parliamentary group on steel and metals-related industries how my hon. Friend is such a tenacious and tireless champion for her part of the world and the steelworkers in it. She mentioned defence earlier in her speech. Does she agree with me that we really need the Government to bring forwa…”

“Independent analysis earlier this year found that British Steel alone supports more than £1 billion in GDP and over 20,000 jobs across the UK. We have seen a range of different interventions this year, including the steel strategy and the measures on trade, which have been welcomed by industry as some of the most signi…”

“I worry that if we pass Opposition amendment 12, we will bake in instability and loss of control, and we will not allow some of the long-term issues to be addressed when Government intervention is needed to ensure long-term resilience in the national interest.”

“The Government are racing ahead with small modular reactors. In my view, there should be an alignment here by ensuring that SMRs are based in industrial clusters and supporting industry there, but also vice versa, so that as we move ahead with the SMR programme, we ensure that British steel is used throughout the suppl…”

“I am delighted to welcome the Bill, and will speak to a couple of the new clauses and amendments. I declare my role as chair of the all-party parliamentary group on steel and metals-related industries, through which it is a pleasure to work cross-party in the interests of the industry. Just outside Middlesbrough, wedge…”

“I was disappointed not to see new measures in the strategy on industrial energy prices, which remain one of the greatest barriers to competitiveness for steel. We have seen the British industry supercharger and the British industrial competitive scheme that help ease the pain, but we need to think much more strategical…”

“The steel strategy, published in March, was right to recognise that rebuilding resilience in the sector will take time. It will not be “job done” within two years; the challenges facing steelmaking, from energy costs and international overcapacity to supply chain fragility and strategic ownership, are long-term challen…”

“I also want to speak to clause 3 and Opposition amendment 12. I am a little cautious about clause 3. The powers enabled by the Bill must not be overly restricted by the sunset clause, as future Governments may not be as interventionist when it comes to our critical sovereign industry and may not be guaranteed to renew …”

“The public interest test, as set out in clause 2, strikes a good balance between the flexibility required to act in the national interest and recognising the need for limitations on excessive power. It should not be restricted any further or we would risk leaving critical assets out of scope of the interventionist powe…”

“As a Back Bencher, I will always fight for more funding to modernise our steel industry. What I do know is that the current owners of British Steel are not responsible owners. We saw last year the crisis that was created when they failed to provide sufficient supply to keep the blast furnaces running. We cannot allow t…”

“Last year, I worked with some of the businesses in my coastal community to develop a local economic growth plan. Would the Minister meet me to discuss that plan and some of the policies that we would like to see?”

“Teesport is one of the country’s most important freight gateways, yet freight from the east coast main line, which is very congested, still has to travel via Darlington because the Northallerton to Eaglescliffe line lacks full W12 gauge clearance. Will the Minister commit to meeting me to discuss that issue and see wha…”

“I am afraid that I want to give the hon. Member another chance to answer the question from my constituency neighbour, my hon. Friend the Member for Middlesbrough and Thornaby East (Andy McDonald), which was not about the prospect of a future EAF on Teesside—a prospect that I support but that the Leader of the Oppositio…”

“Will the hon. Member give way?”

“Will the shadow Minister give way?”

“I regularly raise the need for more resources for frontline policing in Cleveland. We have a small population but high deprivation, and the police funding formula does not take account of the severity of crime in our region—including knife crime, the prevalence of which is among the highest in the country. I welcome th…”

“This incident highlights the need to move at pace to scale up our hybrid naval capabilities, so will the Minister commit to do so, drawing on the strengths of north-east industry?”

“I draw the House’s attention to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. What a contrast there is between the Government of just over a decade ago, who ripped the heart out of my region, and this Government, who finally have a strategy after many decades. I welcome it, but what is more, so does the ind…”

“We have heard today from Members across the House about two twin evils that are driving online abuse: the social media giants’ algorithms, which are promoting content that makes people feel angry or afraid; and the influence of hostile states that deliberately sow disinformation designed to undermine our democracies. I…”