A Bill to place a duty on commercial organisations and public authorities to prevent human rights and environmental harms, including an obligation to conduct and publish human rights and environmental due diligence assessments on their own operations, subsidiaries, and value chains; to make provision for civil liability, penalties, and a criminal offence for failures to comply with the duty; and for connected purposes.
House of Lords
29 May 2024
The bill would place a duty on commercial organisations and public authorities to prevent human rights and environmental harms. It requires them to carry out and publish human rights and environmental due diligence assessments covering their own operations, subsidiaries and value chains, and it creates civil liability, penalties and a criminal offence for failures to comply.
The bill is at Second Reading in the House of Lords. If it progresses, it will move through the remaining Lords stages and then proceed to the House of Commons.
Generated 21 February 2026
The 2023-24 session of Parliament has prorogued and this bill will make no further progress.
No recorded votes for this bill yet.
