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And what exactly are these labour transfer schemes that we would be signing up to and continuing to invest British taxpayers’ money in? The PRC has placed millions of citizens from the Uighur region into what it calls “surplus labour” and “labour transfer” programmes. Local governments and labour agencies are required to meet quotas for these programmes. As of September 2020, the Government of the Xinjiang Uigur autonomous region claims to have placed 2.6 million Uighurs and others in these state-sponsored programmes. In 2021, the Government reported as many as 3.2 million people transferred, and it appears that the programme is growing significantly.