Convention concerning Forced or Compulsory Labour

(asked on 11th September 2015) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 16 July 2015 to Question 6159, if she will establish a timeframe for ratification of the Protocol to the 2014 Forced Labour Convention.


Answered by
Karen Bradley Portrait
Karen Bradley
This question was answered on 18th September 2015

The Government presented the Protocol to the Forced Labour Convention to Parliament on 6 February 2015, where it remained for 21 sitting days to allow scrutiny by both Houses. The UK is already compliant with the measures set out in the protocol and the Government will seek to ratify it shortly.

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