MPs Remove Measures Targeting China’s Hikvision and Forced Organ Harvesting From Procurement Bill

Hikvision surveillance cameras outside the Hikvision headquarters in Hangzhou, in east China's Zhejiang province, on May 22, 2019. STR/AFP via Getty Images

A committee of MPs on Tuesday removed parts of the Procurement Bill that aim to purge Chinese security cameras and accomplices of forced organ harvesting from the UK’s public supply chain.

The two clauses were passed in the House of Lords on Dec. 2 despite the fact that the government opposed the proposals, citing technicality issues. But the government, which has a majority in Parliament, managed to remove them in the House of Commons.