Question follow-through · 50719
Overseas Trade: China
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to ensure that UK businesses trading with China are not complicit in the use of forced labour.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 7 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 12 May 2025
- Answer
- 15 May 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
7 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to ensure that UK businesses trading with China are not complicit in the use of forced labour.
12 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 May 2025
Answer published
No company in the UK should have forced labour in its supply chains. The UK recognises the importance of ensuring UK businesses are not complicit in forced labour, in line with the UN Guiding Principle on Business and Human Rights and the OECD Guidelines ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Trade Agreements: USA
4 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what his planned timetable is for (a) completing negotiations on and (b) implementing the US-UK Economic Prosperity Deal announced on 8 May 2025.
Civil Servants: China
10 Apr 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many FTE civil servants primarily focus on China policy; and their grades.