Human Rights: Supply Chains - 18th June 2026

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Human Rights: Supply Chains.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2026-06-18/debates/167D6DEA-C0F1-4C67-95BD-9641500DCE52/HumanRightsSupplyChains

14:01 Ellie Chowns (Green)

It is clear that UK business has global environmental and human rights impacts. UK business has impacts on climate change, biodiversity loss, pollution, waste management, deforestation, and of course on human rights and labour rights, as we have already discussed. The Government have acknowledged those concerns.

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14:13 Iain Duncan Smith (Conservative)

First, the reality is that slave labour is not only a massive punishment and a human rights abuse on a scale, like genocide, wider than anything else; it is also commercial. Countries such as China use slave labour as a way to undercut markets, compete unfairly and drive businesses out of business—particularly here in the UK, as we have experienced. One of the big issues is the net zero determination and what we wish to do to clean up the environment because the biggest providers of solar arrays, wind farms and the technology are, in fact, based in China.

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