British Steel considering 800 job cuts in Lincolnshire

British Steel is considering 800 occupation cuts centred connected its Scunthorpe plant, the BBC understands.

The institution has started to make the plans, though the paperwork required earlier a ceremonial consultation connected redundancies has not yet been submitted.

British Steel, owned by the Chinese radical Jingye, declined to remark connected the plans.

It employs astir 4,500 workers successful the UK.

Sky News reported that the plans see the closure of the coking ovens astatine the firm's Scunthorpe site.

British Steel is presently successful the last stages of dialog with the authorities implicit a £300m enactment package, which was contingent connected further concern from the genitor institution and guarantees implicit jobs.

Making alloy is expensive, particularly with vigor prices astatine existent levels, and ministers fearfulness that if they bash nary enactment parts of the concern could beryllium unopen down.

Commenting connected the planned cuts a authorities spokesperson said: "The Business Secretary considers the occurrence of the alloy assemblage a precedence and continues to enactment intimately with manufacture to execute this."

The Community Union, which represents steelworkers, has expressed interest astatine the planned cuts.

National serviceman Alun Davies said: "This determination would correspond a betrayal of [British Steel's] loyal workforce and their commitments to put successful the business.

"Steelworkers played their portion to support our alloy manufacture and are being failed by some the authorities and British Steel who are abdicating their responsibilities to the workforce and our country."