Brendan O'Hara

Brendan O'Hara

Scottish National Party — Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber

Speaking in the House of Commons on 3 December 2024

Debate

UK Supply Chains: Uyghur Forced Labour

Contribution

Further to the question from the right hon. Member for Staffordshire Moorlands (Dame Karen Bradley), the US State Department has reported that products from clothing to pharmaceuticals, and everything in between, have been tainted by slave labour, and they have found their way into homes and businesses around the world. In 2021, President Biden signed the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, which said that “all goods, wares, articles and merchandise mined, produced, or manufactured wholly or in part” in Xinjiang could not enter the United States unless the importer could prove that what they were importing had not been produced by slave labour. Given that UK regulations are simply ineffective, will the Government look to introduce something similar to the US provisions in the UK, and put the onus on importers, rather than consumers?

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