Xinjiang: Human Rights

(asked on 13th October 2023) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what estimate he has made of the number of UK (a) businesses and (b) other organisations (i) operating and (ii) cooperating with businesses in Xinjiang which have been implicated in human rights abuses; and if he will make a statement.


Answered by
Anne-Marie Trevelyan Portrait
Anne-Marie Trevelyan
Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
This question was answered on 25th October 2023

The Government's overseas business risk guidance makes clear to UK companies the risks of operating in Xinjiang and urges them to conduct appropriate due diligence and consider their corporate responsibilities when making business decisions. In addition to the overseas business risk guidance, the Government has produced guidance for UK government bodies to help them exclude suppliers where there is sufficient evidence of modern slavery violations in any of their supply chains.

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