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Lord Moraes (Lab)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 28 March 2025

Debate

Modern Slavery Act 2015 Committee Report

Contribution

I attempted to answer that specific point on the question of supply chains—without mentioning the solar panels, of course. The Government are committed, through a sustainable business approach, to ensuring that we do not buy products which are the product of slave labour. The threshold for that is not, for example, that these solar panel manufacturers were convicted of a crime in China. The threshold is that there should be compelling evidence that they have done that. We are moving towards a positive place, but no one would argue that this is an easy question. The global supply chains that we are dealing with provide so much of what we purchase in this country, but it is the Government’s position that we are moving in the correct direction on the question of supply chains.

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