On 24 July 2025, the UK Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights issued a report on Forced Labour in UK Supply Chains. The report finds that the current domestic regulatory framework is “inadequate” to address the issue. The Committee calls for new legislation to be introduced within one year of the report’s publication. The legislation should, among other measures:

• Ban the import or sale of goods linked to forced labour;
• Introduce mandatory human rights due diligence duties for businesses; and
• Create a civil liability cause of action against companies that fail to comply with their “duty to prevent” forced labour in their supply chains.

The Corporate Justice Coalition (CJC) “strongly welcomed” the report’s findings.

The Government has two months to respond to the parliamentary report.