CHRIS GREEN has urged the Government to ‘buy beautiful, buy British, and buy from Bolton’.

During a House of Commons debate on the steel industry, the Bolton West MP extolled the virtues of Lostock-based Severfield, the company behind the London Olympic stadium.

He said: “Severfield, in Lostock at the heart of my constituency, produces architecturally significant steel structures such as the 2012 Olympic stadium and the ArcelorMittal Orbit sculpture.

“Will my right honourable friend do all that he can to ensure that Government procurement buys beautiful, buys British, and buys from Bolton?”

Cabinet office minister David Lidington responded: “We want both public and private sector customers to buy British steel whenever possible.

“The Government have published a pipeline of future public procurement in which steel is needed, so that British producers can plan to bid to take part in the process.”

Severfield’s other major works include The Shard building in London, the Tate Modern, and Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium.