{"value":{"id":1841069,"askingMemberId":4107,"askingMember":null,"house":"Commons","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2025-10-14T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2025-10-20T00:00:00","uin":"81848","questionText":"To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what contingency plans his Department has in place to mitigate disruption to UK-EU steel trade arising from changes to EU safeguard measures.","answeringBodyId":214,"answeringBodyName":"Department for Business and Trade","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":true,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":5116,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2025-10-20T00:00:00","answerText":"<p>The Government is engaging with the EU on how their proposed trade measure will be applied to the UK, in a way which honours our Trade and Cooperation Agreement, the Windsor Framework and minimises disruption; we are reserving the right to take any action in response to changes to our trading relationships.</p><p>We are developing UK steel trade measure proposals, taking into account UK interests in light of the rapidly changing global situation; and we are developing our steel strategy, to be published later this year, to create a more competitive business landscape.</p>","originalAnswerText":"","comparableAnswerText":"","dateAnswerCorrected":null,"dateHoldingAnswer":null,"attachmentCount":0,"heading":"Iron and Steel: UK Trade with EU","attachments":[],"groupedQuestionsDates":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Questions/1841069","method":"GET"}]}