Trade Agreements: Clothing

Department for International Trade written question – answered at on 22 March 2021.

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Photo of Claudia Webbe Claudia Webbe Independent, Leicester East

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that future trade deals are designed to help tackle the exploitation of garment industry workers around the world.

Photo of Graham Stuart Graham Stuart Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for International Trade)

The UK is committed to working with international partners and businesses to tackle modern slavery in global supply chains. It is vital that increased trade is not based on the exploitation and abuse of workers. In line with our international obligations, the Government ensures a high level of protection of labour standards in new trade agreements, including considering how future trade policy can be shaped to ensure the exploitation and abuse of workers is prevented.

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