A cross-party group of peers has proposed a new law aimed at containing the dependency on Chinese imports in the British public bodies’ supply chain.
It comes after the government quietly dropped “Project Defend,” a cross-department project put together during the early days of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus pandemic to assess the UK’s supply chain resilience for strategic projects.
Conservative peer Baroness Philippa Stroud put forward an amendment to the government’s Procurement Bill, giving ministers the power to bolster British public bodies against economic coercion by countries such as China and Russia by reducing goods and services imported from these countries….