Question follow-through · 228
Import Controls: Forced Labour
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing controls to prevent the import of products made with Uyghur forced labour.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 17 Jul 2024
- Target answer date
- 22 Jul 2024
- Answer
- 26 Jul 2024 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
17 Jul 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing controls to prevent the import of products made with Uyghur forced labour.
22 Jul 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
26 Jul 2024
Answer published
No company in the UK should have forced labour in its supply chain. The Department for Business and Trade will continue to assess and monitor the effectiveness of the UK's existing measures, alongside the impacts of new policy tools that are emerging, to ...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Skilled Workers: Job Creation
2 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps the Government is taking to incentivise UK-based companies to retain and create skilled jobs in the UK rather than offshore them.
Construction: Insolvency
27 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to support small and medium-sized construction businesses facing insolvency as a result of planning delays and late payment practices.
Department for Business and Trade: China
1 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether Ministers from his Department took Government phones and laptops on recent delegations to the People's Republic of China.