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Human Rights and Business inquiry

Status: Closed Opened: 16 Jun 2016 Closed: 15 Jun 2016 1 report
Inquiry scopeGovernment Response Special Report: Human Rights and Business 2017: Promoting responsibility and ensuring accountability: Government Response to the Committee’s Sixth Report of Session 2016–17 Special Report: Human Rights and Business 2017: Promoting responsibility and ensuring accountability: Government Response to the Committee’s Sixth Report of Session 2016–17 (PDF 248 KB) The inquiry looks in particular at: What steps the Government takes to monitor compliance with the UN Guiding Principles How far the Government is able to enforce the UN Guiding Principles Whether, and if so what, progress British business has made in carrying out its responsibility to respect human rights Whether victims of human rights abuse involving business enterprises within UK jurisdiction have access to effective remedy

Reports

1 report

Oral evidence sessions

8 sessions

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Date Session and witnesses Source
8 Feb 2017
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1 Feb 2017
Oral evidence session
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25 Jan 2017
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16 Nov 2016
Oral evidence session
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2 Nov 2016
Oral evidence session
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19 Oct 2016
Oral evidence session
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7 Sep 2016
Oral evidence session
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20 Jul 2016
Oral evidence session
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Correspondence

7 letters

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PublishedDirectionLetter
30 Oct 2019 To committee Letter from the Minister of State for the Commonwealth, the UN and South Asia, regarding Human Rights and Business, dated 31 July
28 Feb 2017 To committee Letter from the Minister for Small Business, Consumers and Corporate Responsibility
16 Nov 2016 To committee Letter from the Global Code Practice Manager, Next, to the Chair
16 Nov 2016 To committee Letter from the Chief Executive, Marks and Spencer, to the Chair
16 Nov 2016 To committee Letter from the CEO, ASOS plc, to the Chair
3 Nov 2016 — Letters from the Chair to the Chief Executives of ASOS, Marks and Spencer, and Next
19 Sep 2016 To committee Letter from the Chair to Rt Hon Liam Fox MP, Secretary of State for International Trade