A report by the Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) examined the UK’s mitigations towards products linked to forced labour practices and found the UK is “currently inadequate” in addressing the issue in supply chains of green technologies.
The report said it is “inevitable” these goods are entering the UK because “no effective safeguards” are in place to prevent them.
It comes after an investigation by The i Paper exposed the scale of Britain’s use of solar panels made by firms alleged to have used components made from the forced labour of minorities in China.
The report states: “The Government should urgently address the omissions in the Solar Roadmap in relation to global supply chains and develop a viable strategy to address the risks of forced labour in the UK’s solar supply chain.”
“The Government knows nature of the problem and the challenge but meaningful action has been lacking.
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A critical component of Chinese solar panels is polysilicon that has regularly been been produced by its persecuted Uyghur minority, trapped in forced labour schemes and subject to human rights abuses.
The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero told the Joint Committee that polysilicon is the primary component of over 95 per cent of all solar photovoltaic (PV) modules produced globally.
“The UK has no domestic manufacturing capacity for conventional silicon solar PV,” they said. “And as such is completely dependent on global suppliers who, over the last decade, have increasingly moved from Europe, Japan, and the U.S, across to China.”
In response to the Parliamentary Committee’s report, Luke De Pulford, the founder of IPAC said the “powerful” report isn’t telling the government anything it “hasn’t known for years.”
“We haven’t left it too late if we act now, and after this report the government really has no excuse to sit on its hands.”
Earlier this year, growing concerns over Britain’s use of Chinese panels with links to Uyghur oppression forced Energy Secretary Ed Miliband into banning them from being used by the state-funded Great British Energy company unless it can “ensure that slavery and human trafficking is not taking place” in its business or supply chains.
“There is a lack of visible leadership and coordination within government on tackling forced labour in UK supply chains,” the report found. “The Government should consider how it can provide visible leadership and coordination on the issue of forced labour in supply chains within government.”
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