HC Deb 12 February 2001 vol 363 c20W
Mr. MacShane

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what percentage of the UK steel market is controlled by Corus. [149357]

Mr. Byers

The UK steel market is open and competitive and not subject to control by individual companies. Corns does not release figures showing its share of the UK market but in the year 2000 UK demand for steel mill products was 13.8 million tonnes of which 53 per cent. (7.3 million tonnes) was supplied from UK steel mills. We estimate that 90 per cent. of this was produced by Corns

Mr. MacShane

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what advance information Corns provided to his Department priot to its closure and redundancy announcement. [149360]

Mr. Byers

Since early December when Corus announced a fundamental review of operations my Department was ill frequent contact with Corns. The company refused to discuss details of their overall plan. The detailed information broken down by numbers of jobs proposed to be loss and at which plant was provided at 8.00 am on 1 February.

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