2021 Modern
Slavery Act
Statement

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Championing Specialists
At Informa, our driving purpose is to champion specialists: to help businesses and professionals in a
number of different specialist markets worldwide to learn more, know more and do more. We are focusedon, and proud of, the positive impact created by the knowledge and connections Informa delivers.
Our products and platforms help businesses tosucceed and foster innovation and trade in themarkets we work in. Our content and communities
stimulate professional learning and growth andenable new discoveries to be made. And, ouroperations and activities also create social andeconomic benefits for the communities in which we
work.
Modern slavery is the opposite to our purpose andthis work.
We continue to be committed to ensuring that, as
far as possible, modern slavery, child labour andhuman trafficking does not take place anywhere in
our operations or in our supply chain, and we support
broader efforts in our markets and industries toeliminate them from business.
The period covered by this report was a transition
year for Informa. 2021 saw the gradual return of live
events in our markets and a degree of reopening
in international travel, providing an opportunity toengage with many of our business partners moredeeply in person once again.

We continued to expand and accelerate our digitalproducts and services, taking into consideration
the responsible use of data and information. 2021
also saw the launch of Informa’s 2021-2024 Growth
Acceleration Plan II.
GAP II is a wide-ranging programme with an ambition
to make Informa a more focused, higher growthbusiness that has digital excellence at its core.
It includes additional investments in our business,talent and culture, as well as further embedding
sustainability and responsible business practices
throughout the Company.
This report shares an overview of our commitments,
governance, processes and the positive contributions
we seek to make, and we welcome any questions or
feedback.

Stephen A. Carter
Group Chief Executive

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About this statement
This statement is structured according to the recommendations of the UK statutory guidance“Transparency in Supply Chains: a practical guide“.
1. Organisational structure and supply chains – information on ourbusiness structures, our divisions, colleagues, and supply chains
2. Policies – our Code of Conduct and policies relating to modern slavery
3. Due diligence – our due diligence processes related to theidentification and control of modern slavery risk
4. Risk assessment and management – our risk assessment processes,
the areas of our business and supply chain where we have identified
modern slavery risk, and the action we take to manage these risks
5. Effectiveness – the methods we use to assess the effectivenessof our programme, including monitoring, audit, reporting and key
performance indicators
6. Training – details of the training provided to colleagues on the topic
of modern slavery
7. Engagement in broader global modern slavery efforts – ourengagement in the global work undertaken to combat modern slavery,
including research, publications and industry engagement

Governance of modern slavery ProgrammeInforma’s modern slavery programme is overseen by the Group and Divisional Compliancefunctions under the Head of Group Compliance. It is supported by Group functions
including Legal, Sustainability, Human Resources and Internal Audit, and continues tobe executed by operational and procurement teams in the Divisions. The Group GeneralCounsel has oversight of the programme at the Executive Management Team level.
The programme sits within our wider Human Rights programme and forms part ofthe broader work we do to support and promote responsible business. We operate incompliance with local laws, are committed to respecting internationally recognised humanrights standards, guided by the United Nations Guiding Principles for Business and Human
Rights, the International Bill of Human Rights and the International Labour Organisation’s
Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights to Work.

About this statement
This document comprises Informa’s annual Modern Slavery Statement for the financial
year ending 31st December 2021. It is published in accordance with the UK Modern Slavery
Act 2015 and is a record of the actions taken by Informa Group Plc and its subsidiaries toprevent modern slavery, forced labour and human trafficking from its business operations
and supply chain.
This Statement was approved by the Board of Directors of Informa Group Plc in June 2022
and is made on behalf of Informa Plc and all applicable subsidiaries, where the activities
form part of the supply chain or business of Informa as a parent company. This includes
Informa UK Limited and Informa Connect Limited; the full list of our subsidiaries can befound in Informa’s 2021 Annual Report.

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About Informa: our business structure & supply chains
Informa’s purpose is to champion the specialist, connecting people withknowledge to help them learn more, know more and do more.
Informa operates in the Knowledge and Information
Economy, delivering academic knowledge services,
live events and business-to-business digital services tospecialists.
Informa is listed on the London Stock Exchange and isa member of the FTSE 100 group of companies, withrevenues of £1,799m in 2021.

Our colleagues
At the end of 2021, Informa employed over 10,000
colleagues located in 37 countries, supported by justover 3,000 contractors.
These contracted workers include researchers andanalysts, subject matter experts acting as contributors
or editors to our journals, those engaged in live event
delivery and other professionals including those
helping to provide managed technology services.
We follow a set of consistent recruitment principles
to ensure fairness and the avoidance of bias during
recruitment, so that we continue to attract a diverse
workforce.

Our divisions
Informa is structured as five operating divisions and one support division, which houses our groupfunctions and shared operations. Our operating divisions serve three markets: Academic Markets andKnowledge Services, B2B Markets and Digital Services, and Business Intelligence.
Informa Connect: providing
businesses and professionals withconnections and commercial edge,
through specialist content and contentled live and on-demand experiences

Taylor & Francis: providing academic
knowledge services, including open
research and advanced learning, toresearchers and experts, institutions,libraries and funders

Informa Markets: enabling businesses
to access specialist markets, throughsmart events, specialist brands anddata-driven digital demand generation
services

Informa Intelligence: delivering highvalue data and intelligence in threemain specialist markets: clinical trials,
vessel tracking, and international fundand fixed income flows

Informa Tech: delivering specialist
content, industry communities,
audience development and leadgeneration services to the technology
industry

Global Support: home to the teams
who support Informa’s commercial
divisions and ensure the company
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Informa’s business partners and supply chain
In 2021, Informa worked with approximately 30,000 business partners in over 130 countries
to deliver our products and services and keep our operations running successfully.
Our aim is to form close, trusted and sustainable
relationships of mutual benefit where possible. We
expect our suppliers to work in a way that aligns
with our own standards and guiding principles. The
services and areas in which we most commonly
worked with suppliers in 2021 include:
Subject matter experts,
speakers, partnerships
Event venues andconstruction
IT software, dataand hosting
Print, print managementand distribution
Propertyand office
Professional
services

An overview of the geographic spread of these
supplier partnerships is included in our Geographic
risk section.

Supplier relationship management
Supplier management is overseen and supportedby specialist teams and individuals, who work
alongside Legal and other functions to manage
our key business partnerships.

Recruitment partners
Our external recruitment partners are expected
to support the same principles as Informa, andto follow the Group’s Business Partner Code of
Conduct.

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Our Code of Conduct and Policies
Informa’s Code of Conduct and associated policies describe the processes andpolicy commitments that support our Modern Slavery programme.
Informa’s Code of Conduct and Global Policies areavailable online and on our intranet. The Code of
Conduct was last revised in 2019 and the content
of our Code and the Global Policies that support
it are reviewed by subject matter experts on aregular basis, including our Legal team and external
specialist advisors, as required. Significant changes
to policy are discussed and approved at Group
committee level.
Our modern slavery, child and forced labour related
content was developed with input from external
experts on Human Rights and addresses the areasof potential risk that are most relevant to Informa’s
business, including procurement, recruitment andwork conducted outside our offices, such as onsite
at one of our live events.

Our Global Sustainability Policy
Informa’s Global Sustainability Policy brings
together our policy and commitments on ourenvironmental and social activities and impacts. It
includes specific requirements for colleagues andpartners engaged in procurement and recruitment,
including a commitment to the “employer pays”
principle, avoiding recruitment which places a financial
burden on candidates or workers.

Our Code of Conduct
Informa’s Code of Conduct, How we work at Informa,acts as a central point of reference for all Informa
colleagues and provides clear information on ourcore commitments and expectations of behaviours
and business practice, set in the context of Informa’s
Guiding Principles and ways of working.
The Code includes our commitment to respect
internationally recognised human rights, a detailed
section on modern slavery and child labour
which includes our intent to seek to eliminate
modern slavery, human trafficking, forced andchild labour from our business and supply chain,and our requirements for colleagues engaging in
recruitment, procurement or when working off-site.
The Code of Conduct applies to everyone who works
for Informa or on our behalf, including both permanentcolleagues and temporary or contract workers. Our
Code of Conduct is available here.

Our Business Partner Code of Conduct
Our Business Partner Code of Conduct is applicable
to all Informa’s business partners, including our

suppliers, contractors and agents. The Business
Partner Code, available in eight languages, contains
newly-strengthened sections on modern slavery andon child labour, and is aligned to our colleague Codeof Conduct.
Business Partners must not engage in, work with or
subcontract to any third party that engages in theuse of forced labour, child labour or any labour thatmakes use of human trafficking or restricts freedom of
movement. Our Business Partner Code of Conduct canbe viewed here.

Speak Up – our whistleblowing policy
Guidance on contacting our whistleblowing line,
Speak Up, and on protections for those who reportis included in all our Global Policies and both our
Code of Conduct and Business Partner Codeof Conduct.
Our Speak Up Policy provides additional detailabout all the reporting channels available, andthe investigations process. Further informationon our whistleblowing provision can be read laterin this Statement.

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Due diligence
Supplier relationship management& due diligence
We take a tailored approach to the management ofour key business partnerships, determined by therisk priorities of the division owning the supplier
relationship. Additional audits, enhanced due
diligence and executive level oversight are applied toour most important relationships.
Our enhanced due diligence processes include
checks on compliance, social responsibility andanti-exploitation of labour. We also seek to identify
other factors, such as financial dependency on thebusiness relationship, that might enhance the risk ofmodern slavery or other labour abuses.
All partners, including suppliers, contractors
and agents, are expected to comply with thestandards set out in Informa’s Business Partner
Code of Conduct, which is built into all our formal
procurement processes. We reserve the rightto terminate any contract if non-compliance isdiscovered and is repeated, severe or cannot be
resolved.

Procurement processes for key company-wide
technology suppliers were updated in 2021,
and now incorporate due diligence on modern
slavery, environmental and governance matters.
The processes, which include tendering andcontract renewal, have been designed to ensure
our major technology partners are aligned andmeeting the standards we would expect, withinitial checks on compliance issued to the first
set of suppliers in 2021.
The modern slavery and human rights
questionnaire developed by the Taylor &Francis Journals Production team in 2020 has
now been rolled out to all suppliers managed
by this team and categorised by them as
Tier 1, and the process was extended to
key suppliers managed by the Peer Review
procurement specialists.

Recruitment due diligence
Colleagues recruited to Informa are subject toidentity checks and confirmation of their right towork in that location as part of the onboarding
processes, including age and citizenship statuschecks where this is applicable.

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Assessing & managing modern slavery risk
The most significant part of our modern slavery
programme is the process by which we identify
our risk of modern slavery, assess its likelihood
and potential impact, and identify and deploy
multiple means of managing or reducing the riskthat it may occur.

Risk identification and assessment
At Informa, the assessment, management andoversight of risk is a continuous activity, using
an established risk management framework andgovernance structure, which is described in moredetail in our Annual Report.
Our risk assessment processes consider bothfinancial and non-financial impacts and the broader
likelihood of their occurrence. In our assessment of
the risk of exposure to modern slavery in Informa’s
operations and supply chain, we follow the broader
Group Risk management processes. These are thenoverlaid by modern slavery-specific considerations,seen from the perspective of the rights holders andwith consideration of remedy, in line with the United
Nations Guiding Principles.
Sources of data used to assess our modern slavery
risk exposure include the most recent Global Slavery
Index, together with the US Trafficking in Persons
report and the Freedom in the World Report.

The following key risk indicators are considered:• Industry sector, including the type of product or service supplied and workforce requirements• Geography, including location of key operations, offices, venues• Nature of the supplier relationship, recognising that more significant or longer-term engagements
provide us with greater opportunity to influence, monitor and support• Local / national regulatory or legal compliance• Supplier activity including evidence of a compliance and/or human rights programme or similarcommitments or actions
Final assessment of the specific risks attached to the supplier relationship is dependent on theinterrelationship between these indicators, where one factor may significantly mitigate another.

Events and COVID-19: an ongoing impact on risk
During 2021 we saw a gradual return to live events at different times in different parts of the world,and our teams worked in close collaboration with local officials to ensure visitor safety and confidence.
As in 2020, in the locations and periods when travel and large scale events were restricted, our direct
engagement with the suppliers who usually help deliver or operate our events was also restricted,
including with our partners in construction, catering and hospitality industries, which are typicallyconsidered as having a higher risk of modern slavery issues. We continue to monitor the impact ofthe pandemic on our exposure to modern slavery risk as the situation develops.

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Low

Moderate

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Suppliers

We review our analysis of geographical risk
annually to determine the relative risk of modern
slavery and forced labour in the countries andregions in which Informa’s colleagues and business
partners work and live.

Key:

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2021

2021

10,000+ colleagues
in 36 countries

30,000 suppliersin 131 countries

92% of colleagues inlocations assessed as
low or moderate riskof modern slavery

95% of procurement
spend with suppliers
in locations assessed as
low or moderate risk

Very high risk

76% of our colleague population is located incountries with the lowest incidence of modern slavery,
including United Kingdom, United States, Canada andJapan. Colleagues in locations assessed as moderate,
including Singapore and Hong Kong, make up afurther 17%.
1% of colleagues are located in countries identified byreference sources as having a very high risk of modern
slavery or forced labour. The nature of Informa’s
business in these locations means that most of ourcolleagues are professionally qualified or specialists
in their role, and work in more advanced fields than is
typical for those at risk of modern slavery.

95% of our procurement expenditure took place inlocations identified as having low or moderate riskof modern slavery, according to our assessment
criteria and sources.
Our expenditure in locations assessed as very highrisk stands at just 0.5%, having decreased by afurther 30% since 2020. We continue to monitor therisk associated with partnerships in these locations:
suppliers include academics, subject matter experts
and speakers at our events and local offices ofglobal professional services firms, both of which
are roles and fields considered to be at lower risk ofmodern slavery.

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Industry sector risk: areas of focus
Informa’s businesses and products are supported by a broad variety of partners
representing industries with a range of exposure to the risk of labour rights abuses.

SectorServices or products supplied

Timber & forestry

Paper and card used in printing of
publications; office supplies; timber usedin stand construction for events

Construction

Build and take down of exhibition stands;
venue development including temporary
structures

Hospitality & venues

Use of exhibition centres, hotels andother venues to host events and for theaccommodation of colleagues and event
attendees

Manufacturing

MiningManufacture of small marketing materials,
including lanyards and badges; print
production including impacts associatedwith binding and inks
Extracted minerals and metals used inextended supply chain; reusable stands forevents; IT hardware and office supplies

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Risk management & mitigation
Informa uses a range of actions to help address the risk of modern slavery
occurring in our business operations or supply chains, including• Embedding the requirement to comply with the Business Partner Codeof Conduct in tendering processes, standard contracts and frameworkagreements across the Group, with a commitment to ethical procurement built
into the procurement strategy• Use of preferred venue providers with established anti-modern slavery
programmes• Inclusion of anti-modern slavery clauses in manuals provided to exhibitors at
events, plus a requirement for valid work permits, ID badges, and a prohibitionon the presence of children during build and breakdown at B2B events• In-person monitoring by operational teams for the presence of children andforced labour on site during event construction• Provision and communication of a third-party managed confidential reporting
service, available to colleagues and third parties in multiple languages• Training and communication, including on risk red flags, to enable improved
identification of potential use of forced labour, plus communication on modern
slavery by procurement teams to their peers• Internal recruitment processes, including identity and rights to work checks,
payment of the Living Wage in the UK• Engagement with editors and authors on the ethical conduct of research that
we publish, including use of valid informed consent for clinical trial participants,
to help address the risk of coerced participation
In-person event venue visits by the Group Internal Audit team, which include childlabour checks, remained limited in 2021 owing to fewer events being operated
and the impact of pandemic travel restrictions. In-person audit visits to key
strategic business partners by procurement teams were also subject to the same
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Examples of specific risk mitigation activity
Use of paper and timber
The illegal or unsustainable harvest of timber isfrequently associated with large-scale corruption,
destruction of rare species’ habitat, organised crimeand serious human rights abuses, including the use offorced and child labour.
We aim to mitigate the risk this represents byensuring, as far as possible, that the timber andpaper used in our operations and products holds a
responsible sourcing certificate. One example of thisis FSC certification, which incorporates core labour
requirements into its system and Chain of CustodyStandards, including the effective abolition of childand forced labour.
This commitment forms part of the Group’s
sustainability programme and is reported annually
as a KPI in Informa’s Sustainability Report, with a longterm KPI for 100% of paper and timber to be obtained
from certified or recycled sources. In 2021, 92% of
paper was obtained from certified sources.
The Group Paper & Timber Sourcing Policy, Code of
Conduct and Group Sustainability Policy all contain the
mandate to source paper and timber from certified
sources where possible, whether ordering directly or
through contractors. Colleagues sourcing timber or

paper in South America, South East Asia, Africa andthe Middle East that is not certified sustainable orrecycled, must conduct additional due diligence,and the policy is required to form part of allcontracts with applicable suppliers.

Event stands
Informa’s Better Stands programme is one
example of a sustainability initiative that supports
responsible labour practices, as well as broader
environmental goals.
We are working with exhibitors with the aim toswitch from the use of disposable custom-built
stands to reusable stand structures.
These are typically quicker and simpler to set up,
improving health and safety risk exposure andreducing the need for some forms of labour thathave been identified as potentially more vulnerable
to use of exploited and child labour. They also help
to reduce the use of single-use timber products.
Exhibitors and contractors at over 300 events had
participated in this programme by the end of 2021.

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Sustainable event management
Informa’s Sustainable Event Management System isa framework which aims to embed key sustainability
considerations into all of our events. Topics include
responsible procurement and compliance with our
Code of Conduct, which includes modern slavery andhuman trafficking.
Over 200 in-person and smart events haveparticipated in the sustainable event management
framework since its launch in 2019. Compliance withthe programme is tracked and monitored by theGroup Sustainability team, and reported as partof the annual Sustainability Report.
In 2021, Informa partnered with the
Association of Event Organisers(AEO) to give open access tothe framework as a resource
for all AEO, AEV and ESSA
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Journals supply chain
In 2020, the Global Supplier Management teamworked with the Divisional and Group Complianceteam to design a programme to identify modern
slavery in the Journals supply chain and, where
necessary, take corrective actions to protect thepeople involved, directly or indirectly, in producing
our products. Due diligence on modern slavery has
now been built into the team’s tendering processes,
which are next scheduled for 2023, together with a
mid-contract audit questionnaire.

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The first set of questionnaires was issued to prepress
suppliers in early 2021 and all critical/Tier 1 suppliers
managed by the team have now responded tothese questionnaires. The team worked together
with Compliance to evaluate the informationand documentation provided by the suppliers todemonstrate good practice and the team is intending
to follow this up with in-person site visits to confirm
the responses provided.
The team has also published a Modern Slavery & Staff
Well-being intranet page to share best practice withother procurement teams, including key red flags thatmight indicate someone is a victim of modern slavery,and has spoken to other teams about this element of
their sustainable supply chain work.
The team has found no indications that modern
slavery is an issue at our suppliers directly. Responses
have demonstrated good understanding of the issue,
well-developed compliance programmes, and overall
compliance with Informa’s standards and Business
Partner Code of Conduct.
The supplier management team is committed toremaining diligent: to check with suppliers that thebusiness partners they use are also following goodpractice, and to work with them to make a positive
contribution to the well-being of staff working on our
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Effectiveness: monitoring, reporting and key indicators
Monitoring, report and audit processes
Informa’s Internal Audit team reviews specificelements of this programme as part of theiroperational audits, reviewing procedures, labour
usage and monitoring for minors on site. Actions
identified would be managed to completion and any
non-completed actions would be raised with theGroup Audit Committee. A limited programme ofoperational audits was completed in 2021, impacted
both by travel restrictions and by the more limited
number of live events: the Internal Audit team was
focused primarily on health and safety in the context
of the pandemic, but continued to monitor for childlabour during walkthroughs.
The Business Partner Code of Conduct contains
provisions for audit and, where compliance with
the Code has been agreed as part of a contract,
we reserve the right to terminate that agreementin the event that non-compliance is discovered,and is repeated, severe or cannot be resolved.
In-person visits by relationship owners to ourstrategic business partners, which provide additional
opportunities for audit, continued to be postponed
through 2021 but are intended to be resumed
once it is judged safe to do so. In the interim,
questionnaires have been issued to Tier 1 suppliersin our technology and journals supply chain.

The Group Compliance team reports on completion
statistics for our Code of Conduct training, which
includes our modern slavery content, to the Group
Risk Committee, and tracks completion levels for
new joiners as part of our formal risk management
process for managing the risk of regulatorycompliance; training completion rates are reported
in the Annual Report and Sustainability Report.
The Group Compliance team monitor reports madevia the Speak Up line to ensure they are managed
appropriately and consistently, Breaches of ourCode of Conduct and associated Global Policies arereported to the Risk Committee and Board; volumesof breaches and resolution times are tracked.

External reporting: indices
In addition to our internal reporting, Informa provides
information on our performance and progress to third
party assessors and indices, including the Dow Jones
Sustainability Index (DJSI), FTSE4Good and the Ethibel
Sustainability Index.
Our steady and improving progress has been
increasingly recognised and in 2021, Informa ranked
first in our peer industry group in the DJSI, whichmeasures governance and social risk, including labour
rights across our business and supply chain.

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Assessment of effectivenessThe effectiveness of any Modern Slavery programmeshould be understood both in the context of theavailability of channels to enable observation,
identification and reporting of suspected or actual
cases in any operations and supply chain, andalso of the controls or other actions which aim
at reducing exposure to the risk. The pandemic
continued to affect opportunities to observe andmonitor circumstances first-hand in 2021.
We have received no reports in 2021 of casesof suspected or actual modern slavery or childlabour, whether through our Speak Up line orother reporting channels, material or otherwise.

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In addition, none of our current business partners
reported any such concerns to us, via their directcontacts with our operational teams, or via our
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Responding to incidents or
breaches of modern slavery policy

Questionnaire responses assessed in 2021 showedthat those of our current suppliers who were asked
to respond demonstrated a good understanding of
the risks of modern slavery and had programmes inplace to address it. No responses raised concerns.

While we have not in 2021 discovered any cases offorced or child labour amongst our supply chain or
operations, or any breaches of our policies, we havein place measures that will enable us to respond tosuch events.

Internal Audit and operational team checks did notdiscover or observe any instances of forced or childlabour, suspected or actual, at our events in 2021, in
the limited instances that these visits were possible
at live events.

Our Business Partner Code and other agreementswith our suppliers and exhibitors give us the ability
to terminate contracts in the event of a breach, but
we recognise that the use of modern slavery orforced labour is not a problem that is likely to beresolved by such action.

KPIs
KPIs relating to compliance training that increases awareness of the risk ofmodern slavery and child labour

2021 status• 90% of new joiners should complete Code of Conduct training within 30 days

90% (December)• 95% completion for overall colleague population

94%

KPIs relating to areas of our supply chain with exposure to modern slavery
risk, developed as part of our sustainability programme• Paper and timber: 100% sourced from sustainable, certified sources

92%• Better stands: elimination of disposable stands from Informa Connect, Techand Informa Markets North America by 2023

On track

Our intention would be to seek a constructive
solution. We have continued to engage with those
responsible for procurement to communicate
this intention and to work with them to develop
alternative actions, in the event that such abuses
are discovered.
Colleagues are mandated to comply with the Codeof Conduct and our policies on modern slavery,
forced or child labour. Any breaches may result in
disciplinary action, up to and including dismissal,
and any colleagues knowingly making use of
trafficked, child or forced labour or enabling it would
be subject to these processes.

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Colleague engagement and training
Training
Our Code of Conduct training is mandatory for
all colleagues and is available in nine languages.
It includes specific scenario-based content on
modern slavery and child labour, focusing on
responsible procurement and due diligenceand the identification of key indicators of forced
labour, with the intention of enhancing colleagues’
awareness and ability to mitigate these risks in our
supply chain and our own operations. This content
was developed to reflect potential risk areas formodern slavery identified in our most recent risk
assessment.
Colleagues are required to make a commitment
to comply with the terms of our Code of Conduct
before completing the training.
Overall completion stands at 94%, with 85% of thosecolleagues having completed it within 30 days.

New joiners
In 2021, all new joiners were given Code of Conduct
training as part of their Compliance induction
training package on joining the company.
The KPIs set by the Board in 2021 for new joiners
include the achievement of a 90% completion rate
within 30 days.

Opportunities to raise concerns
We recognise the importance of providing people withsafe, easily accessible channels for communication,
whether they are themselves at risk or a victim, orwhether they have observed something that has caused
them concern.
To support the processes and controls in place tomitigate modern slavery risk, we ensure that everyone
who works with us or for us, or who visits any of ourevents, has the opportunity to report things that they
have seen or experienced freely and in confidence. Our
reporting channels, both those available externally andinternally, were the subject of regular communicationsin 2021.

Speak Up
Our confidential whistleblowing line, Speak Up, isavailable to all Informa colleagues, business partners
and customers to report issues or raise concerns andto access expert support. Speak Up is hosted by a third
party, Navex. Reporting is always in confidence andreporters may choose to remain anonymous, where
this is permitted in law. To facilitate reporting, the line isavailable in 12 languages and users can also make useof free phone lines in over 18 locations.
Business Partners who have signed up to our Business
Partner Code of Conduct are required to share thedetails of Speak Up with any of their employees who
are working with us or on our behalf.

Other reporting channels
Colleagues and third parties are also encouraged toreport directly to internal teams, including HR andCompliance, should they prefer to do so. We provide
details of how to contact the line on informa.com, andin all our Global Policies, our Code of Conduct and ourBusiness Partner Code of Conduct.

Zero retaliation
We are committed to zero retaliation against anyone
making a report in good faith, or supporting an
investigation. We extend this commitment to third
parties who report concerns affecting our business.

Training on reporting & investigations
management
New guidance was developed in 2021 for line managers
who may be required to respond to concerns or
support team members involved in an investigation.
In addition, external Legal counsel provided training tomembers of the HR and Compliance teams engaged inbreach investigation and management.

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INTRODUCTION

BUSINESS STRUCTURE &SUPPLY CHAIN

POLICIESDUE
DILIGENCERISK ASSESSMENT& MANAGEMENTEFFECTIVENESSTRAINING

EXTERNAL
ENGAGEMENTEngagement in global anti-modern slavery efforts
Throughout Informa, we connect people with specialist knowledge. Our contributions to anti-modern
slavery initiatives include the specialist knowledge we deliver on human rights related topics and the role
we play in industry collaborations to manage risk across our markets.
Academic research
Taylor & Francis, our Academic Markets business,
publishes extensive research on these topics,
including articles looking at the impacts of thepandemic on the prevalence of modern slavery
and child labour, reviews of the effectiveness of
new and current regulations and the research
into aspects of the historical contexts and ongoing
impacts of slavery.
Publications in 2021 included the Journal of Human
Trafficking, Slavery & Abolition, the International
Journal of Human Rights, the Nordic and Australian
Journals of Human Rights, and the Journal of
Immigrant and Refugee studies.
This knowledge is part of Taylor & Francis’s broader
online collection, Sustainable Development Goals
Online (SDGO).

Industry associations
In the events market, our sustainability team are at thecentre of collaborative efforts to drive sustainability
development across the industry, including industry
programmes targeting modern slavery, humantrafficking, and child labour.
In 2021, Informa’s Senior Sustainability Manager was chairof the cross-association Sustainability Working Group,
which brings together members of the Association of
Event Organisers, the Association of Event Venues andthe Event Suppliers and Services Association to help
to drive sustainable development across the events
industry. The working group has developed a framework
to improve alignment on these issues, including content
on human trafficking and modern slavery.
Informa’s Head of Sustainability continued as a memberof the Event Industry Council (EIC)’s Sustainability
Committee, which sets the EIC’s sustainability strategy.
The EIC’s sustainable event standards include criteria
related to planning and policy for human trafficking.
Informa is a launching signatory to the EIC’s Principles,
which include Basic Social Considerations, including
universal human rights and labour practices.

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