Question follow-through · 68528
Business: Supply Chains
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to ensure that companies are legally obliged to prevent (a) human rights abuses and (b) environmental harms in their supply chains.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 16 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 21 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 22 Jul 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
16 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to ensure that companies are legally obliged to prevent (a) human rights abuses and (b) environmental harms in their supply chains.
21 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 Jul 2025
Answer published
The UK has a range of measures in place to promote RBC across the economy. In the Trade Strategy, the Government also launched a review into the UK's approach to responsible business conduct, focused on tackling human rights and labour abuses, modern slav...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Small Businesses: Fraud
10 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to ensure (a) consumers are protected from consumer fraud by small businesses and (b) victims are (i) promptly and (ii) sufficiently compensated for their losses.
Small Businesses: Standards
10 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what measures he is taking to ensure small businesses deliver (a) prompt, (b) competent and (c) honest services to consumers.
Fireworks: Misuse
10 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to improve enforcement laws relating to the (a) setting off of fireworks (i) in public places and (ii) outside permitted hours and (b) misuse of fireworks in general.