thank you for speaking to us this morning, roger godsiff, labourmpfor birmingham us this morning, rogeroment or two. we can bring you a bit more on british steel, it has been announced in the last half an hour that it will go into insolvency putting 5000 british jobs directly at risk. we will speak to our business correspondence shortly. let's speak now to dr kathryn ringwald — an expert on the steel industry. what's your reaction? it's extremely sad news for people involved in the plant and for the supply chain workers in the steel industry. but it's not entirely a surprise given the difficult position they found themselves in and the government's decision to call a halt... explain some of the reasons why you think this has happened. british steel was asking the government for emergency money, tens of millions of pounds that was not forthcoming from the treasury. there were two reasons british steel was in trouble at this time. the first was they had to pay an emissions fee every year for the pollution that is created by the industry. this is usually offset by eu carbon credits which a