Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Environment – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 6 February 1974.
It is impossible at the moment to give an accurate assessment of the future of steel for the next three months. It all depends on many events in industry. Steel production at present is about 70 per cent. of normal production. Stocks of coking coal are at a minimum level at most works and future production will depend mainly on coal deliveries.