A Tory minister has urged the Welsh Government to reconsider its requirements around steel as the UK Government races to avert the shutdown of Britain's last primary steelmaking plant. Shadow business minister Dame Harriett Baldwin said it's a "critical part of our national infrastructure" that the Scunthorpe plant is "kept going".
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00:00There was a deal agreed with the owners of that blast furnace to migrate into an electric furnace.
00:09And what I would say to the Welsh Government is also that I would urge them to reconsider their requirement
00:16that the only steel that goes into Welsh public contracts is steel from those blast furnaces.
00:22Because I think it's really important that it's a critical part of our national infrastructure
00:26that this British steel blast furnace in Scunthorpe is kept going.