Lord Alton – 30th November 2023
House of Lords
Will the minister initiate an urgent investigation into reports of children standing knee deep with their bare skin in toxic pools mining for cobalt; examine the research of Professor Siddharth Kara published in Cobalt Red, and challenge the absurdity of companies relying on assurances from state run Chinese companies in the Congo that human rights norms are met?
Under the terms of the Modern Slavery Act, will he consider offences committed within supply chains, make offending companies subject to company qualifications – as with GDPR disqualifications – and meet with me and others to consider a product kite marking scheme to enable consumers to know that they are buying goods made using slave and child labour?
Lord Alton – 30th November 2023
House of Lords
In full:
- Oral questions: Supporting international efforts to end the use of child labour from artisanal cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Lord Benyon (Conservative)
- Lord Alton of Liverpool (Crossbench)
- Lord Benyon (Conservative)
- Lord Collins of Highbury (Labour)
- Lord Benyon (Conservative)
- Lord Howell of Guildford (Conservative)
- Lord Benyon (Conservative)
- Lord Purvis of Tweed (Liberal Democrat)
- Lord Benyon (Conservative)
- Baroness Butler-Sloss (Crossbench)
- Lord Benyon (Conservative)
- Lord Wigley (Plaid Cymru)
- Lord Benyon (Conservative)
- Lord Harris of Haringey (Labour)
- Lord Benyon (Conservative)
- Lord Bellingham (Conservative)
- Lord Benyon (Conservative)
- Lord Stirrup (Crossbench)
- Lord Benyon (Conservative)
