Question follow-through · 54597
Business: Human Rights
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will take legislative steps to tackle human right abuses in business practices.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 30 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 9 Jun 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
30 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will take legislative steps to tackle human right abuses in business practices.
3 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Jun 2025
Answer published
The UK has a range of measures in place to promote responsible business conduct and supports voluntary due diligence approaches taken by UK businesses to identify and prevent human rights abuses across their operations and supply chains, in line with the ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Insolvency Service: Standards
27 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what the average time taken was for the Insolvency Service to investigate civil offences in the latest period for which data is available.
Arms Trade: Pakistan
26 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether the Government has authorised any export licences for military equipment or dual-use items to Pakistan that could be used in drone operations or internal security actions in Balochistan.
Trade: Balochistan
26 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the level of the risk that UK-supplied equipment could contribute to human rights violations in Balochistan.
Arms Trade: Belgium
20 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department plans to conduct a compliance investigation into the companies involved in the seizure of UK-origin military goods in Belgium.
Export Controls
20 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what measures are in place to ensure that UK-origin controlled goods comply with licensing requirements when transiting third countries.
Trade Agreements: USA
29 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to undertake further trade negotiations with the US under the General Terms of the Economic Prosperity Deal.