| Heading: |
Business: Human Rights |
| Question ID: |
1755600 |
| UIN: |
HL4043 |
| House: |
Lords |
| Date tabled: |
2025-01-14 |
| Asking Member ID: |
3575 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Baroness Goudie
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| Asking Member handle: |
BaronessGoudie
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@BaronessGoudie
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have, if any, to convene a cross-department unit on business and human rights that consults with civil society and those with lived experience of business harms on a frequent basis. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-01-31 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
3792 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Baroness Jones of Whitchurch
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| Answering Member handle: |
WhitchurchGirl
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@WhitchurchGirl
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| Correcting Member ID: |
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| Answer text: |
The Department for Business and Trade works closely with departments across government to prevent corporate human and labour rights abuses, and engages regularly with civil society on these matters. DBT operates the UK National Contact Point for Responsib... |
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| Answering body ID: |
214 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Business and Trade |
| Tweeted: |
true |