Please refer page 2 & 3.

There are some interesting points I would like to mention here:

1. The company- Charles Wells clealy mentions that, only the suppliers with tunrnover in excess of 36 million pounds are required to comply with the Modern Slavery Acy 2015.

They only expect the smaller suppliers to remunerate and provide appropriate working environment to their employees and merely provide assurance about this. Could not find any information in the slavery statement on the suppliers below the tunrnover of 36 million pounds complying to the Modern Slavery Act 2015.

2. Charles and Wells have not explained about clear processes, audit mechanisms or systems in place to authenticate the assurances given by the suppliers, both, smaller and larger suppliers (turnover above 36 million pounds) falling in line with the Modern Slavery Act 2015. Thus, I would say its not really specific.

3. The company clearly mentions that they can't trade with company where slavery is involved in the supply chain, but at the same time they are not specifically mentioning on how they are actualy achieving this.

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"All of our suppliers are being written to in order to ascertain their understanding and level of compliance with what is required form the Act and to set out our conditions that we cannot trade with any company where slavery or human trafficking are involved in the supply chain at any point.

For goods or services that are determined as higher risk we will undertake further investigations which will result in our seeking alternative supply if we are not satisfied with the outcome.

We aim to have fully reviewed our supplier base by March 2017 and any new suppliers will be similarly vetted."