Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what advice on human rights is given to UK companies doing business in China.

HMG publishes Overseas Business Risk guidance for companies operating in many countries including China. This includes sections on child labour, ethnic minorities, gender, migrant workers, working conditions and trade unions.

In 2013, HMG also published advice on ‘Good Business – Implementing the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights’, which was updated in 2016. The document has been translated into Mandarin Chinese for the benefit of Chinese audiences.

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s travel advice for China also details human rights concerns.