Question to the Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade:

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure sugar produced under conditions of modern slavery is not sold in products in the UK.

The Government announced on 4 November that it will legislate to introduce a mandatory, risk-based human rights due diligence regime for the largest businesses, requiring them to identify, assess and address risks of human rights abuses and labour exploitation within their operations and supply chains. The Government will also introduce powers to be able to remove goods made with forced labour from the Great Britain market. These measures will help tackle the risk of sugar and other products produced using modern slavery being sold in the UK.