Question follow-through · 115517
Forced Labour: Uyghurs
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department has made an assessment of the effectiveness of the United States’ Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act; and whether he plans to introduce similar legislation.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 24 Feb 2026
- Target answer date
- 26 Feb 2026
- Answer
- 3 Mar 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
24 Feb 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department has made an assessment of the effectiveness of the United States’ Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act; and whether he plans to introduce similar legislation.
26 Feb 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Mar 2026
Answer published
The Government is committed to tackling forced labour in UK and global supply chains and ensuring that UK businesses are not complicit in human rights abuses. Import bans are one of a range of tools that could be used to tackle forced labour in global sup...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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