Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has had discussions with the Secretary of State for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy on re-writing modern slavery rules.

Conversations have taken place at official level between the Home Office and the Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) colleagues about the proposed commitment to strengthen Section 54 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015, which relates to mandatory reporting on Modern Slavery in supply chains by businesses with an annual turnover of £36m or more.