Member

We currently have an uneven human rights standard across Government. While the Department of Health and Social Care is, as I said earlier, now required by law to eradicate slavery from its purchasing, other Departments that are currently exposed to complicity in human rights abuses are not required to satisfy those standards. UKEF is a case in point. I beg the Government to amend the Modern Slavery Act 2015 at some stage to make it an outright criminal offence for anybody to import, or support, any product made by any company that uses slave labour. That would kill this off once and for all, and would cover all elements of Government activity. I know the Minister responding to the debate believes in doing that. I simply say to him, why do the Government not just say, “Enough’s enough—we’re going to get after it”? We will come back to that, I am sure, when he sums up.