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Aluminium: Manufacturing Industries

Asked by Dame Chi OnwurahLabourDepartment for Business and TradeTabled Answered 23 October 2025UIN 83311

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits to (a) the environmental and (b) employment opportunities from introducing domestic aluminium rolling capacity.

Answered by Chris McDonald

To date, the Department for Business and Trade has not assessed the environmental and employment opportunities potentially derived from the introduction of a UK aluminium rolling mill.

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