Cross-Party MPs Want to Tweak Procurement Bill Against CCP’s ‘Techno-Authoritarianism’

Cross-Party MPs Want to Tweak Procurement Bill Against CCP’s ‘Techno-Authoritarianism’
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Lily Zhou
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A group of cross-party MPs are pushing for a new law to require the UK government make a list of “high risk” suppliers that should be barred from getting government contracts and appoint a watchdog to check the list.

Alicia Kearns, chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee, said she proposed amendments to the Procurement Bill because the current proposals in the bill don’t work.

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