Business: Human Rights
(asked on 26th April 2017) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what plans they have to introduce a new criminal offence of failure to prevent human rights abuses, as recommended by the Joint Committee on Human Rights in its report <i>Human Rights and Business 2017: Promoting responsibility and ensuring accountability</i> published on 29 March (6th Report, HL Paper 153).
Answered by
Baroness Williams of Trafford
Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms (HM Household) (Chief Whip, House of Lords)
This question was answered on 27th April 2017
It has not proved possible to respond to this question in the time available before Prorogation. Ministers will correspond directly with the Member.