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Finance (No. 3) Bill

I should like to speak to amendment 12. It is a great pleasure to talk about places that I know well, such as the Teesside Cast Products plant in Redcar, Stocksbridge, Hartlepool and Scunthorpe, as well as Skinningrove in my own constituency. The chemical industry is no longer the dirty industry depicted in Ron Angel's ““Chemical Worker's Song””. On Teesside, between 35,000 and 45,000 workers are directly or indirectly employed in the industry, and over the past 18 years, it has reduced its emissions by some 75%. That has been matched by the steel sector's reduction in energy per tonne of steel produced from 31.7 GJ in 1973 to 19.4 GJ in 2010.