| Heading: |
Business: Human Rights |
| Question ID: |
1806277 |
| UIN: |
54597 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-05-30 |
| Asking Member ID: |
178 |
| Asking Member display name: |
John McDonnell
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| Asking Member handle: |
johnmcdonnellMP
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@johnmcdonnellMP
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will take legislative steps to tackle human right abuses in business practices. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-09 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
632 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Mr Douglas Alexander
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| Answering Member handle: |
D_G_Alexander
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@D_G_Alexander
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| Correcting Member ID: |
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| Answer text: |
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 ... |
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| Answering body ID: |
214 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Business and Trade |
| Tweeted: |
true |