United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 7278
Slavery
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23 January 2020
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30 January 2020 · Answer
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30 January 2020
Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has plans to implement a licensing system to protect people in the UK working in fast fashion garment factories from modern slavery; what discussions she has had with retailers on working
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23 January 2020
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has plans to implement a licensing system to protect people in the UK working in fast fashion garment factories from modern slavery; what discussions she has had with retailers on working
Source: Commons
30 January 2020
Answer
The Government is committed to tackling labour exploitation and protecting workers’ rights and we have taken a number of steps to deal with the issues in the textiles sector.We have widened the remit of the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority through t...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2020-01-23/7278
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1173004
- uk · wq-1173004 · source updated 30 January 2020