Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you, witnesses, for your testimony.
My first question will be for Ms. Quade. It's about the U.K.'s Modern Slavery Act. I'm just going to read to you from an article that I have here, which was written shortly after the Modern Slavery Act was implemented in 2015. Part of the title is “Will it work?”. I'm just going to read a bit of it out to you:
Although the new provision will push slave labour higher up the agenda for businesses and help increase transparency, there are concerns that it will do little to force companies to properly investigate slavery in their supply chains.
That being said, you mentioned that in the agricultural sector, 70% of...child labour has been rampant there. With that article I just read, how can states properly tackle the issue of child labour and specifically in rural areas?