Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to encourage transparency within supply chains for the textile industry to ensure that workers are not victims of modern slavery.

The Modern Slavery Act 2015 includes a ground breaking transparency in supply chains provision, which requires large commercial organisations operating in the UK to set out the steps they have taken to ensure there is no modern slavery in their business or supply chains. This includes large businesses in the textile industry.