HOW STEEL BRINGS IN £4.5BN A YEAR FOR BRITAIN

31,000 people directly employed by the industry in Britain

£36,000 average salary for a worker in the steel industry

600 manufacturers in the UK

£4.5bn brought into the British economy by steel every year

8m tons were produced in 2016

3.4m tons of British steel were sold around the world in 2016

£360m of UK steel was exported to the United States last year

1.3 per cent of all UK exports are steel

7th largest EU producer – UK follows Germany, Italy, France, Spain, Poland and Belgium