MOTT MACDONALD GROUP LIMITED modern slavery statement summary (2022)
Organisation address
10 Fleet Place,
London,
United Kingdom,
EC4M 7RB
London,
United Kingdom,
EC4M 7RB
We asked the organisation a series of questions about its modern slavery statement. Its answers are published on this page as a statement summary.
This statement provides information for all 6 recommended areas
What is a modern slavery statement?
UK law requires certain organisations to publish an annual modern slavery statement on their website, setting out the steps they are taking to address modern slavery risks in their operations and supply chains.
Read more in the government guidance on publishing modern slavery statements.
Link to full statement
Go to full modern slavery statement on organisation’s website
PDF version of the statement (optional)
There is no PDF version of this statement.
PDF statements were first introduced to the registry for the 2023 statement year.
About this statement summary
All answers relate to the financial year covered by the statement. The organisation is responsible for all the information it provided. Some of our questions are optional, so organisations may not have answered all of them. The statement summary does not replace the full modern slavery statement – below we provide a link to the full statement on the organisation’s website.
Contents
- Legal requirement to publish
- Statement period and sign-off details
- Recommended areas covered by the statement
- The organisation’s sectors and turnover
- Number of years producing statements
- Policies
- Training
- Monitoring working conditions
- Modern slavery risks
- Finding indicators of modern slavery
- Demonstrating progress
Legal requirement to publish
MOTT MACDONALD GROUP LIMITED has confirmed it is required to publish a 2022 statement by law.
Statement period and sign-off details
The statement covers the following period:
1 January 2021 to 31 December 2021
The statement was signed off by:
James Harris (Group Managing Director)
It was approved by the board (or equivalent management body) on:
8 June 2022
Recommended areas covered by the statement
Government guidance encourages organisations to cover a range of areas in their modern slavery statements, setting out the steps they’re taking to address modern slavery risks in their operations and supply chains. Read about the recommended areas in the statutory guidance.
We asked the organisation to tell us which areas its statement covers.
| Areas recommended by government guidance | Organisation’s response |
|---|---|
| The organisation’s structure, business and supply chains | Covered |
| Policies | Covered |
| Risk assessment | Covered |
| Due diligence (steps to address risk) | Covered |
| Training about modern slavery | Covered |
| Goals and key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure the effectiveness of the organisation's actions and progress over time | Covered |
The organisation’s sectors and turnover
Sectors
The organisation operates in the following sectors:
- Public sector
- Construction, civil engineering and building products
- Defence and aerospace
- Education and research
- Food and beverages, agriculture and fishing
- Healthcare and pharmaceuticals
- Information technology and telecommunication
- Mining, metals, chemicals and resources (including oil and gas)
- Professional and administrative services and supplies, including legal, consulting and accounting services
- Transportation, logistics, and storage
- Utilities: gas, water and electricity
Turnover
Its turnover in the financial accounting year of this statement was:
Over £500 million
If the organisation is a public body, this amount is based on the organisation’s budget for the year of the statement.
What does 'turnover' refer to in group statements?
If this is a group statement, this includes the total turnover for all the organisations covered by the statement.
Number of years producing statements
The organisation has been producing modern slavery statements for the following number of years:
1 to 5 years
How does this work for group statements?
If the statement is for a group of organisations, this answer applies to the organisation with the longest history of producing statements.
Policies (optional)
We asked the organisation whether its policies include the following provisions in relation to its domestic and international supply chains, as well as its own operations.
| Policy provisions we asked about | Organisation’s response |
|---|---|
| Freedom of workers to terminate employment | Not included |
| Freedom of movement | Not included |
| Freedom of association | Not included |
| Prohibits any threat of violence, harassment and intimidation | Included |
| Prohibits the use of worker-paid recruitment fees | Not included |
| Prohibits compulsory overtime | Not included |
| Prohibits child labour | Included |
| Prohibits discrimination | Included |
| Prohibits confiscation of workers' original identification documents | Not included |
| Provides access to remedy, compensation and justice for victims of modern slavery | Not included |
| Other |
Not included
|
Training (optional)
We asked the organisation whether it provided training on modern slavery, and who it was for.
What counts as training?
We explained that by ‘training’ we meant anything designed to increase knowledge and skills around identifying, addressing or preventing modern slavery risks.
This could range from formal training courses to broader awareness-raising activities such as workshops or webinars.
| We asked who the training was for | Organisation’s response |
|---|---|
| Your whole organisation | Yes |
| Your front line staff | Yes |
| Human resources | No |
| Executive-level staff | No |
| Procurement staff | No |
| Your suppliers | No |
| The wider community | No |
| Other |
No
|
Monitoring working conditions (optional)
Engaging with others
We asked the organisation to tell us who it engaged with to help monitor working conditions across its operations and supply chains.
| We asked who the organisation engaged with | Organisation’s response |
|---|---|
| Your suppliers | Yes |
| Trade unions or worker representative groups | No |
| Civil society organisations | No |
| Professional auditors | No |
| Workers within your organisation | Yes |
| Workers within your supply chain | No |
| Central or local government | No |
| Law enforcement, such as police, GLAA and other local labour market inspectorates | No |
| Businesses in your industry or sector | No |
Social audits
We asked the organisation to tell us about any social audits it used to look for signs of modern slavery.
What are social audits?
A social audit is a review of an organisation’s working practices from the point of view of social responsibility, and should include an evaluation of working conditions in the organisation’s operations and supply chains.
By their nature, audits of supplier workplaces represent a snapshot in time.
Organisation’s response
The organisation told us it did not carry out any social audits during the period of the statement.
Grievance mechanisms
We asked the organisation how workers in its operations or supply chains could raise concerns or make complaints.
| We asked if workers could raise concerns this way | Organisation’s response |
|---|---|
| Using anonymous whistleblowing services, such as a helpline or mobile phone app | Yes |
| Through trade unions or other worker representative groups | No |
Other ways of monitoring working conditions
We asked the organisation whether it had any other ways of monitoring working conditions across its operations and supply chains:
Organisation’s response
The organisation did not answer this question.
Modern slavery risks (optional)
Warning
Identifying modern slavery risks is a vital step towards eradicating it.
The government encourages organisations to be as open and transparent as possible, to improve understanding, collaboration and best practice around tackling this worldwide problem.
We asked the organisation to describe up to 3 priority risks it focused on during the period of the statement, including details of the affected workers, the activity involved, and the location.
Priority risks for this organisation (1 of 3)
Low wage jobs- for example office cleaners and support staff such as drivers or security staff across our global organisation
| Questions we asked about this risk | Organisation’s response |
|---|---|
| Where it was most likely to occur |
Organisation’s response:
Within your supply chains.
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| Who was it most likely to affect |
Organisation’s response:
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| In which country |
Organisation’s response:
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| Actions or plans to address this risk | Organisation’s response: We carry out due diligence on suppliers providing us with a service to verify that they share our corporate values, We seek only to work with companies who provide their staff with a living wage. We identify countries and sectors where there is a higher risk of modern slavery in our supply chain to carry out a more detailed risk assessment. |
Priority risks for this organisation (2 of 3)
Purchasing of supplies for the business such as tea, coffee, IT equipment, PPE and furniture and the associated supply chain where unskilled labour may be prevalent
| Questions we asked about this risk | Organisation’s response |
|---|---|
| Where it was most likely to occur |
Organisation’s response:
Within your supply chains.
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| Who was it most likely to affect |
Organisation’s response:
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| In which country |
Organisation’s response:
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| Actions or plans to address this risk | Organisation’s response: We monitor the performance of our suppliers in supporting us to meet our policy commitment and the services they provide to us. We evaluate potential and existing suppliers using a standard questionnaire to identify competence, compliance with our values and standards and to ensure they are addressing slavery and human trafficking risks. This assessment is repeated periodically. Additional questions on modern slavery risks have been added to our questionnaire for central suppliers. |
Priority risks for this organisation (3 of 3)
Association with construction projects that do not respect human rights, but where we are not the direct employer.
| Questions we asked about this risk | Organisation’s response |
|---|---|
| Where it was most likely to occur |
Organisation’s response:
Organisation selected ‘Other’ and wrote: Client organisations, partners and their contractors (not under a direct contractual relationship to us) |
| Who was it most likely to affect |
Organisation’s response:
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| In which country |
Organisation’s response:
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| Actions or plans to address this risk | Organisation’s response: We carry out due diligence on our clients and partners prior to agreeing to do work with or for them. We would respond to reports received for example on welfare conditions and raise concerns based on any site visits we might carry out and take appropriate action. We have rolled out slavery on modern slavery to staff visiting site to raise awareness and carried out risk assessments on high risk countries and sectors to highlight the risk to our staff. |
Indicators of forced labour (optional)
We asked the organisation whether its statement refers to finding any International Labour Organization (ILO) indicators of forced labour.
What are ILO indicators of forced labour?
The International Labour Organization (ILO) has produced a list of the most common signs of forced labour.
They’re based on the definition of forced labour as ‘all work or service which is extracted from any person under the menace of any penalty and for which the said person has not offered himself voluntarily.’
More details and guidance are available on the ILO website, and in their publication ILO indicators of forced labour
Organisation’s response
The organisation told us its statement does not refer to finding any International Labour Organization (ILO) indicators of forced labour.
Demonstrating progress (optional)
We asked the organisation how its statement demonstrates progress over time in addressing modern slavery risks.
They provided the following answer:
We set annual progress goals in each modern slavery statement, as well as reporting progress over the year covered by the statement.
We set more detailed annual KPIs internally to help us to set priorities, plan our resources, monitor our progress and to report to our Executive Board quarterly and at year end on our progress. Reporting on progress, risks and incidents takes place at several levels in the organisation.