Member

As I have often pointed out, Section 54, requiring mere transparency statements from companies, has proved toothless. The noble Baroness, Lady May, who pioneered the Modern Slavery Act 2015, agrees that the legislation must be reviewed and reformed. We should now look seriously at the model set by the United States in the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, which introduced a rebuttable presumption—something we raised today with the Lord Chancellor—that goods linked to Xinjiang are the product of forced labour, unless clear and convincing evidence can be shown to the contrary.