Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions she has had with (a) the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and (b) Ministers in his Department on the imposition of export controls for companies dealing with Chinese businesses suspected of (i) breaching the Modern Slavery Act 2015 and (ii) genocide considerations pertaining to the Trade Act 2021.

On 12 January, the Government committed to review existing export controls as they apply to China to identify whether we can bring into scope any additional goods which could be used for internal repression or human rights violations in Xinjiang. This review is ongoing and the Department for International Trade will report back to Parliament on the outcome of the review in due course.