Ministers are set to restrict Britain’s new state-owned energy company from using any solar panels linked to Chinese slave labour in a victory for human rights campaigners.
Ed Miliband, the energy secretary, will on Wednesday introduce an amendment to legislation going through parliament that will force Great British Energy to ensure “slavery and human trafficking is not taking place” in any of its supply chains, according to people with knowledge of the details.
There have been concerns that solar panels purchased by the company may contain polysilicone from the China’s Xinjiang region, where there have been suspected human rights abuses of the Uyghur community.
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