"In the event that we did become aware of any modern slavery issues within any of our supply chains, this would be escalated to senior management and appropriate action taken depending on the circumstances – from supporting a supplier to make a positive change to terminating the relationship with the supplier."

"Where we believe a company is exposed to modern slavery risk and not taking action to mitigate this risk, we will look to incorporate this into our investment view and engage with the company to drive positive change."

"In 2018 we plan to:

Engaging with experts to further strengthen our risk assessment, deepen our understanding and identify areas where we can target our efforts to have most impact."

In the event that we did become aware of any modern slavery issues within any of our supply chains, this would be escalated to senior management and appropriate action taken depending on the circumstances – from supporting a supplier to make a positive change to terminating the relationship with the supplier.2