Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps his Department is taking to identify companies that are required to make declarations in relation to their supply chains under section 54 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015.

Under Section 54 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015, commercial organisations that carry on a business in the UK and have an annual turnover of £36 million or more, are required to publish a slavery and human trafficking statement.

There are a number of practical difficulties in using the data Government currently holds to identify businesses in scope, for example, although Companies House is working to make their data more readily accessible it is not currently possible to filter their database by turnover size. Therefore we are planning to obtain a list of organisations that are subject to this legislation from a range of non-governmental sources.