Tim Farron – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Transport
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tim Farron on 2016-03-21.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much UK steel in (a) value and (b) weight his Department has used in projects it funds in each of the last 12 months.
Mr Robert Goodwill
Network Rail procures approximately 120,000 tonnes of steel rail per annum from Tata’s plant in Scunthorpe. Network Rail procures a further 8,000 tonnes of steel per annum for niche products supplied by Arcelor Mittal (Spain) and Voestalpine (Austria). Steel requirements for other projects funded by the Department are procured by prime contractors and therefore figures are not available. A breakdown of directly sourced UK steel is shown below for the last 13 rail periods.
|
Railway period |
Tonnes |
Spend £m |
|
P1, 15/16 |
13,599 |
8.7 |
|
P2, 15/16 |
13,151 |
8.8 |
|
P3, 15/16 |
9,744 |
6.0 |
|
P4, 15/16 |
9,091 |
5.8 |
|
P5, 15/16 |
6,560 |
4.2 |
|
P6, 15/16 |
9,109 |
5.9 |
|
P7, 15/16 |
9,416 |
6.1 |
|
P8, 15/16 |
10,494 |
6.9 |
|
P9, 15/16 |
6,752 |
4.2 |
|
P10, 15/16 |
4,640 |
3.0 |
|
P11, 15/16 |
4,636 |
2.8 |
|
P12, 15/16 |
7,526 |
4.7 |
|
P13, 15/16 (Forecast) |
18,251 |
8.7 |
|
TOTAL LAST 12 MONTHS |
122,969 |
75.7 |
