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Written questions by McDougall.

Every parliamentary written question tabled by Blair McDougall this session, with the full answer and department. See how every department answers, or back to the MP page.

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Department:All (120)Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (50)Home Office (21)Department of Health and Social Care (9)Treasury (7)Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (6)Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (4)Department for Work and Pensions (3)Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (3)Department for Transport (3)Scotland Office (3)Cabinet Office (3)Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (2)

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17 Jul 2024·Department for Energy Security and Net Zero·Answered

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What steps his Department is taking to help ensure that solar panels installed in the UK do not contain polysilicon manufactured through the slave labour of Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims in China.

No company in the UK should have forced labour in its supply chain. We will be working with colleagues across Government to tackle the issue of Uyghur forced labour in supply chains. We are also relaunching the Solar Taskforce, which will focus on identifying and taking forward the actions needed to develop supply chains that are resilient, sustainable and free from forced labour. This will support the significant increases in deployment of solar panels needed to meet our ambition of tripling the UKs solar power capacity by 2030.

17 Jul 2024·Department for Energy Security and Net Zero·Answered

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Whether he plans to take legislative steps to protect consumers of (a) petrol and (b) diesel from uncompetitive practices by retailers.

The government welcomes the CMA’s work to investigate fuel prices and we will continue to monitor the situation closely.

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