That this House congratulates Mail on Sunday journalists Nick Fielding and Steve Bent for their expose of Medonna Company of Tirapur in Tamil Nadu which was published on 8th January 1995; notes that this company is a supplier of garments to the high street retail clothes chain C & A; is disturbed that such a flagship retailer did not know that their supplier employed factory children in the production of clothes for rates of pay around 40 pence for each shift which can last from 8 a.m. until 9 p.m.; considers that there can be no other description for such a practice that slave labour; calls upon C & A to immediately repudiate their supplier and to demonstrate with immediate effect that they will ensure in future, and in all respects, that their suppliers will be obliged to pay fair wages, adopt good local conditions of employment and not exploit child labour; further calls upon all United Kingdom retail outlets to review the employment circumstances and conditions of their suppliers overseas in the sure knowledge that there will always be British journalists such as Nick Fielding and Steve Bent who, together with their editors, will not hesitate to expose such cruel and unacceptable practices; and, in conclusion, knows that ordinary decent women and men in the United Kingdom will not continue as customers of shops which make profits based on the exploitation of children or people paid slave wages.

That this House congratulates Mail on Sunday journalists Nick Fielding and Steve Bent for their expose of Medonna Company of Tirapur in Tamil Nadu which was published on 8th January 1995; notes that this company is a supplier of garments to the high street retail clothes chain C & A;...