Companies: Environment Protection and Human Rights

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14 April 2022

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To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if she will make it her policy to introduce legislation to hold companies liable when they fail to prevent human rights abuses and environmental harms in overseas supply chai

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14 April 2022
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if she will make it her policy to introduce legislation to hold companies liable when they fail to prevent human rights abuses and environmental harms in overseas supply chai
Source: Commons
26 April 2022
Answer
The Government is clear that it expects all UK businesses to respect human rights throughout their operations, in line with the UN Guiding Principles. In response to the Guidelines, the UK was the first State to produce a National Action Plan and we conti...
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Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2022-04-14/154134
Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1458050
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