China: Forced Labour
(asked on 5th December 2023) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he has made an assessment of the implications for his policies of reports linking Army solar panels to claims of forced labour in China.
This question was answered on 11th December 2023
The Government is committed to tackling the scourge of modern slavery and takes allegations such as these very seriously.
Ministry of Defence (MOD) policy requires us to scrutinise our supply chain to ensure that the MOD does not procure equipment from any supplier that cannot robustly demonstrate they have a supply chain free of forced labour.