British Steel Stimulus Call by Council Leader in Evidence to Parliament

British Steel stimulus call by council leader in evidence to Parliament

The leader of North Lincolnshire Council and senior trade union representatives gave evidence on the Government's intervention in British Steel and what nationalisation could mean

GMB warns MPs cost of not saving British Steel would have been ‘unfathomable’

The cost of allowing steelmaking in Scunthorpe to collapse would have been “unfathomable”, the GMB union has told MPs, as the Public Accounts Committee weighs whether the government’s intervention to keep British Steel running represents value for money for the taxpayer. Giving evidence to the committee, GMB national secretary Charlotte Brumpton-Childs set out the union’s case that ministers had little realistic choice but to step in when Britis…