A Tory minister remains in charge of Freeports despite a “conflict of interest” over his previous work on Teesside, The Yorkshire Post can reveal.
Jacob Young , a junior minister in the Department for Levelling Up, has this week recused himself from any work involving British Steel following the company’s intention to create “ green steel ” at Teesworks , the UK’s largest Freeport . However, it is understood that Mr Young is still responsible for Freeport policy as part of his ministerial portfolio, raising questions over whether he still has a conflict of interest on policies that could impact the Freeport in his area.
The Chinese-owned company plans to replace them with two electric arc versions if it gets “appropriate support from the UK Government”, one of which would be built at its Teesside plant. Electric furnaces are used to recycle steel scrap into new steel. The Teesworks Freeport has been dogged by accusations of corruption, wrongdoing and illegality following accusations that local businessmen were set to benefit from profits of the project despite a lack of evidence that they invested.
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