VoteClimate: NHS PPE Supply Chains: Forced Labour - 14th July 2022

NHS PPE Supply Chains: Forced Labour - 14th July 2022

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate NHS PPE Supply Chains: Forced Labour.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2022-07-14/debates/57ED11CF-8E5B-4264-BB47-C13354BE03BB/NHSPPESupplyChainsForcedLabour

13:50 Jim Shannon (DUP)

The Xinjiang region also produces 20% of global cotton production and 45% of the world supply of polysilicon—an essential material in solar panel construction. Today, it is deeply tied to global supply chains, from fashion to renewable energy, and that builds on the profits of ongoing crimes against humanity and, as this House has often claimed, genocide.

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