United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 5175
China: Forced Labour
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5 December 2023
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13 December 2023 · Answer
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to page 13 of the Defence Supply Chain Strategy, published in November 2022, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the clothing inventory sourced from China is (a) ethically sourced an
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5 December 2023
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to page 13 of the Defence Supply Chain Strategy, published in November 2022, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the clothing inventory sourced from China is (a) ethically sourced an
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13 December 2023
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It is longstanding policy that the use of slave labour is a mandatory exclusion from contracts with the Ministry of Defence; this policy is currently captured within the Procurement Contract Regulations (2015). In line with this policy the current supplie...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2023-12-05/5175
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1675439
- uk · wq-1675439 · source updated 13 December 2023