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Recommendation 5
5
We believe the Department must do more to meet its commitments to uphold human rights,...
Conclusion
We believe the Department must do more to meet its commitments to uphold human rights, particularly in relation to businesses with links to China. While transparency of supply chain legislation falls under the remit of the Home Office, business transactions are a BEIS responsibility. Despite mounting evidence, the Department has shown little sign that it is taking a proactive or meaningful lead on investigating UK business links to forced labour and other human rights abuses in China or elsewhere. The Department must take urgent action in order to eradicate the use of forced labour in UK value chains, as set out below. (Paragraph 41) 24 Uyghur forced labour in Xinjiang and UK value chains Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986
Government Response
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HM Government
Not Addressed
The Government would like to thank the Committee for setting out its recommendations to businesses (recommendations 1–5). The Government would also like to thank the businesses that that provided written and oral evidence to support the Committee’s report. It has been incredibly helpful to hear what businesses have to say about the issue of forced labour in UK supply chains, and the UK government is committed to helping to ensure UK organisations are neither complicit in nor profiting from the human rights violations in Xinjiang.