British Steel Corporation

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 9 March 1978.

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Photo of Mr Robert Cant Mr Robert Cant , Stoke-on-Trent Central 12:00, 9 March 1978

It so happens that Shelton is in the best scrap-producing area in the West Midlands.

During the Beswick review, when we mentioned to a director of BSC, who has now sunk without trace, that we should have a pelletisation plan, at Shelton, long before Hunterston was thought of, he said "We never spend money on untried technology." Six months later orders had been placed for Hunterston.

Let us get more humanity into the management of BSC, so that the people who have struggled along without strikes producing good quality products will not in future be treated as they have been treated. If Shelton closes, there will be disapointment, and bitterness will seep into the folk memory of the Potteries people because of the way these workers have been treated by the BSC management.