2020 Modern
Slavery Act
Statement

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Successful partnerships and positive impact
At Informa, our driving purpose is to help businesses and professionals to learn more, know
more and do more. We are committed to, and proud of, the positive impact that the knowledge
and connections we deliver can create for our customers, markets and communities.
At the same time, we recognise the responsibilities
we have to our colleagues and broader communities
and seek to address them in a comprehensive way,particularly with regards to employment and labour,
the rule of law and ethical and sustainable businesspractices.
The circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic
during 2020 created some changes to our products
and the way we work; most specifically, resulting in
the postponement of a majority of our face to face
events and limiting international travel.
The pandemic did not, however, change ourcommitments to responsible business practices or toembedding sustainability throughout the company.
We remain committed to ensuring that, as far
as possible, modern slavery, child labour andhuman trafficking does not take place in ouroperations or those of our business partners,
and we support broader industry and global
efforts to eliminate these from business.

Further details of our policies, processes,
practices and governance arrangements canbe found in this report, and we welcome any
questions on this matter.

Stephen A. Carter
Group Chief Executive

About this statement
This document comprises Informa’s annual
Modern Slavery Statement for the financial year
ending 31st December 2020. It is published inaccordance with the UK Modern Slavery Act 2015
and is a record of the actions taken by Informa
Group Plc and its subsidiaries to prevent 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 December
2021 and is made on behalf of Informa Plc andall applicable subsidiaries, where the activities
form part of the supply chain or business ofInforma as a parent company. This includes
Informa UK Limited, Informa Connect Limited,
Informa Telecoms and Media Ltd and Informa
Finance USA Limited. The full list of our
subsidiaries can be found in Informa’s 2020
Annual Report.

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About Informa
Informa’s purpose is to champion the specialist, connecting people withknowledge to help them learn more, know more and do more.

Through business intelligence and analysis, in-person
and virtual events, engaging online communities
and marketplaces, data-driven marketing services,
effective networking and partnering platforms
or advanced peer review research, we champion
specialists and connect individuals and businesses
with the expert knowledge and valuable connections
they need.
Informa is listed on the London Stock Exchange andis a member of the FTSE100 group of companies,
with revenues of nearly £1.7bn in 2020. We have over
10,000 colleagues working in 30+ countries.

Informa’s Guiding Principles
Our Colleagues across Informa are united by acommon cultures and set of four Guiding Principles,
which describe how we aim to work and behave.

Think Big, Act Small
Trust must be Earned
Success is a Partnership
More Freedom, Fewer Barriers

Governance of modern slavery
Informa’s modern slavery programme is overseen by
the Group and Divisional Compliance functions underthe Head of Group Compliance. It is supported byGroup functions including Legal, Sustainability,
Human Resources and Internal Audit, and continues
to be executed by operational and procurement
teams in each of the Divisions. The Group GeneralCounsel has oversight of the programme at the
Executive Management Team level. Divisional
leadership has oversight of applicable elementsof the programme.
The programme sits within our Human Rights
work, which is guided by the International Billof Human Rights and the International Labour
Organisation’s Declaration on Fundamental
Principles and Rights to Work: it forms part of thework we do, more broadly, to support and promoteresponsible business. We operate in compliance withlocal laws, are committed to respecting internationallyrecognised human rights standards, and follow theUnited Nations Guiding Principles on Business andHuman Rights.

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Colleagues & recruitment
Our business is wholeheartedly a peoplebusiness. The way we succeed as a company
is through the efforts, engagement andcontribution of colleagues.
At the end of 2020, Informa employed 10,000 colleagues
located across 40 countries, supported by just over 2,000
contractors. These contractors include contributors to ourjournals and other professional contractors including those
providing a managed technology service.
Recruitment for both permanent and contract colleagues
ismanaged by specialist teams within each division. We work to
a set of consistent recruitment principles, which are designed toensure fairness and avoid bias, and which were most recently
updated in 2020 to enhance our processes around attracting
diverse candidates. Over the last year, we have continued
to develop our policies and statements around ensuring
our recruitment processes avoid the risk of modern slavery.
Informa’s new Global Sustainability Policy, published in 2020,
included a clear statement that we do not support recruitmentthat imposes financial burdens on candidates or workers,
nor creates any form of bonded labour, in recognition of themodern slavery risks associated with recruitment fees.
Colleagues recruited to Informa are subject to identity checks
and confirmation of their right to work in that location as partof the onboarding processes, including age and citizenshipstatus checks where this is applicable.
Informa continues to be a Living Wage Employer in the UK.

Informa’s businesses
Informa Connect delivers specialist content and live experiences through in-person
events, virtual events and digital platforms and services, enabling businesses andprofessionals to meet, connect, learn and share knowledge. We have major brands
in Finance, Biotech & Pharma and other specialist markets.
Informa Intelligence provides critical data and specialist intelligence to businesses
looking to make better informed decisions, spot opportunities and gain competitiveedge. We have major brands in Pharma, Finance and Maritime, with over 25,000
companies subscribing to our predictive and action-based insight and intelligence.
Informa Markets connects buyers and sellers and supports the flow of businessand trade in over a dozen specialist markets. Our leading brands help businesses
meet, discover products, trade and grow through major exhibitions, virtual events,
digital marketplaces and specialist content and data services.
Informa Tech aims to inspire the global technology community to design, build andrun a better digital world. Our leading tech brands provide research, media, training
and events that inform, educate and connect businesses and professionals working
in technology.
Taylor & Francis is specialist in scholarly research and in helping academic andresearch communities make new breakthroughs. We commission, curate, produce
and publish scholarly research and reference-led content in specialist subject areas,
helping to advance research and enabling knowledge to be discovered and shared.
Global Support is the team behind the teams, home to Informa’s corporate
functions and shared business services teams whose specialism enables ourcommercial businesses to focus on their markets and customers.

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Engaging colleagues on modern slavery
Training
In April 2020, we rolled out new Code of Conduct
training to over 10,000 colleagues as part of a Groupwide Compliance training month. All colleagues wererequired to complete training related to the content
of our revised Code of Conduct, and to make acommitment to comply with its terms.
The mandatory training, available in nine languages,
includes specific scenario-based content on modern
slavery and child labour, focusing on responsible
procurement and due diligence and the identificationof key indicators of forced labour, with the intentionof enhancing colleagues’ awareness and ability to
mitigate these risks in our supply chain and our own
operations. The training also included details of how
to contact the confidential reporting line, Speak Up.
Completion rates exceeded our previous KPIs, withover 70% colleagues successfully completing training
within 30 days and over 95% completing it within
the year.

New joiners
All new joiners are given Code of Conduct training aspart of their Compliance induction training package on
joining the company, alongside Health & Safety, Data
Privacy and other role-specific courses.

Raising concerns
We recognise the importance of providing people withsafe channels for communication, whether they arethemselves at risk or a victim, or whether they haveobserved something that has caused them concern.

Speak Up
Everyone who works for us, with us, or who visits
one of our events, has the opportunity to raise
any concerns they have using our confidential
whistleblowing line, Speak Up. Speak Up is hosted bya third party, Navex. Reporting is always in confidence
and reporters may choose to remain anonymous,
where this is permitted in law. To facilitate reporting,the line is available in multiple languages and users canalso make use of free phone lines in over 18 locations.
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, and in all our Global Policies, our Codeof Conduct and our Business Partner Code of Conduct.
Business Partners are required to share the detailsof Speak Up with any of their employees who
are working with us or on our behalf. Speak Up
was the subject of regular internal all-colleague
communications during 2020.

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.

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Policies and Codes of Conduct
Informa’s modern slavery programme is supported by a number of policy
and process commitments which are included in our Code of Conduct andassociated policies.
Our Code and Global Policies are available online
and on our intranet. The modern slavery andchild labour related content has been developed
to address the areas of potential risk that are
most relevant to Informa’s business, including
procurement, recruitment, and work conducted
outside our offices.

How we work at Informa:
Our Code of Conduct
Informa’s Code of Conduct sits at the heart of our
Global Policies and provides clear information on ourcore commitments and expectations of behaviour
and business practice, focused on our common setof principles and beliefs. The Code of Conduct, towhich all colleagues are required to commit as part ofmandated training, applies to everyone who works for
Informa or on our behalf, including both permanentcolleagues and temporary or contract workers.
The Code includes our commitment to respect
internationally recognised human rights, together witha detailed section on modern slavery and child labour.

This section sets out our intent to seek to eliminate
modern slavery, human trafficking, forced and childlabour, together with due diligence and reporting
requirements for colleagues engaging in recruitment,
procurement or when working off-site. Our Code of
Conduct is available here.

Our Business Partner Code of Conduct
Our revised Business Partner Code of Conduct wasrolled out in 2020, endorsed by the Group Chief
Executive and is applicable to all Informa’s business
partners, including our suppliers, contractors andagents. The Business Partner Code, available in eightlanguages, contains newly-strengthened sections on
modern slavery and on child labour, and is aligned toour colleague Code of 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 freedomof movement.

Our Global Sustainability Policy
Informa published a new Global Sustainability Policy
in 2020, bringing together a number of existingcommitments around our environmental and social
activities and impacts, and enhancing our approach toresponsible recruitment and procurement. It includes
specific requirements for colleagues and partners
engaged in procurement and recruitment, including
a new commitment to the “employer pays” principle,
avoiding recruitment which places a financial burden
on candidates or workers.

Speak Up – our whistleblowing policy
Guidance on contacting our whistleblowing line,
Speak Up, and on protections for those who report isincluded in all our Global Policies and both our Codeof Conduct and Business Partner Code of Conduct.
Our Speak Up Policy provides more details of all thereporting channels available, and the investigations
process. All colleagues and business partners are able
to access Speak Up. Business Partners are required,as part of the Business Partner Code of Conduct, tocommunicate details of the facility to anyone working
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Informa’s business partners & supply chain
Informa’s international supply chain includes over 30,000 suppliers located inaround 130 countries.
We set out to ensure that our partnerships are
sustainable and of mutual benefit to all parties andexpect our suppliers to work in a way that aligns with
our own standards, guiding principles and goals. The
services and areas in which we most commonly workwith suppliers are:IT and data services

Property and office

Event venues and construction

SMEs and partnerships

Professional services

Print and print management

Supplier management is overseen by specialist teamsin the divisions, who work alongside Legal and otherfunctions to manage our key business partnerships.
Due diligence is carried out on a risk basis, determinedaccording to each division’s risk priorities, withenhanced due diligence focusing on strategic or highcontract value partners. Our enhanced due diligenceprocesses include checks on compliance, social
responsibility and anti-exploitation of labour, andseek to identify other potential risk factors,
such as financial dependency on the business
relationship.
Our Business Partner Code is built into all our
procurement processes, and we reserve theright to terminate any contract with a business
partner if non-compliance with our policies is
discovered and is repeated, severe or cannot
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Modern slavery & risk management
As a company, we seek to manage rather than avoid risk, and set out toidentify and understand the risks we face as a Group and to develop anddeploy appropriate and effective risk strategies to address them.
Risk identification and assessment
Risk arises both as a natural consequence of doing
business and in the pursuit of our strategy. We havean established risk management framework thatenables risk to be identified, assessed and addressedconsistently, through a set of governance structuresand policies which are set out in our Annual Report.
Our assessment of the risk of exposure to modern
slavery follows the broader Group risk management
processes, which we apply with consideration for
specific modern slavery risk factors, including therecognition that human rights risk must be seenfrom the perspective of the rights holders and withconsideration for remedy, in line with the United
Nations Guiding Principles.
Our risk assessment process was developed aspart of our most recent Group-wide human rights
risk assessment. The assessment was completed in
2019, and uses data from the Global Slavery Index,
Freedom in the World Report and the Trafficking
in Persons Report. We intend to conduct our next

Group-wide human rights risk review after 2021, totake into account developments in Informa’s businessand products following the impact of the pandemic.
In determining risks, we consider the following key
indicators:• Geography, including location of venues, offices
or manufacturing locations• Industry sector, including type of product orservice supplied• The nature of the supplier relationship, wheremore significant or longer-term engagements
provide us with a greater opportunity to influence,monitor and engage in change• Specific actions of the supplier, including evidenceof a compliance and/or human rights programme orsimilar commitments or actions
Final assessment of the specific risks attachedto the supplier relationship is dependent on theinterrelationship of these indicators.

Events and COVID-19
In most regions and countries, the COVID-19
pandemic led governments and authorities torestrict large scale gatherings for some or all of
2020.
We adopted a postponement programme that
rescheduled or cancelled the majority of our face
to face events. As a result of operating fewer
events, our work with the suppliers who usually
help deliver our events was reduced, such as ourpartners in construction, catering and hospitality.
These industries are typically considered ashaving a higher risk of modern slavery issues
and, due to the economic impact of COVID-19 insome countries, it is possible that the global riskof labour exploitation will increase. As our faceto-face events return in 2021 and our work with
event suppliers is reinstated, our engagementwith partners around risk management will also
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Our geographic risk
We review our analysis of our geographical risk annually to determine therelative risk of modern slavery and forced labour in the countries and regionsin which Informa’s colleagues and business partners work and live.
Our assessment references the findings ofthe Global Slavery Index, together with the US
Trafficking in Persons report, to help to determine
our overall exposure.

Colleagues

Key:

Low

ModerateHigh

Very high risk

Suppliers
2020: 10,000+ colleagues
in 37 countries

2020: 34,000+ vendors incountries

92% of colleagues inlocations assessed as
low or moderate risk ofmodern slavery

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

75% of our colleague population is located incountries with the lowest incidence of modern slavery,
including Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and theUnited Kingdom, with a further 17% in locations suchas Singapore which are assessed as moderate.
While 1% of our colleagues are based in countries
that are deemed to have a high or very high risk ofmodern slavery or forced labour, such as Thailand
and the Philippines, the nature of Informa’s businessmeans that most of our colleagues are professionallyqualified or specialists in their role, and work in moreadvanced fields than is typical for those at risk ofmodern slavery.

Of our total procurement spend in 2020, 95% was withbusiness partners located in countries rated as low
or moderate risk of modern slavery, according to ourassessment criteria.
Our spend with suppliers based in countries with avery high risk rating decreased by 60% in 2020, as
a result of Informa running fewer events becauseof the pandemic and therefore working less with
event suppliers in local markets. Some of our otherpartnerships in higher risk countries are with local
academics and subject matter experts, which areroles and fields that tend to be at a lower risk ofmodern slavery.

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Industry sector risk: areas of focus
Across Informa’s range of businesses and products, we engage with different
types of suppliers who have different exposures to labour rights risks.
The higher risk supplier categories we work with are below.

SectorServices or products supplied

Timber & forestry

The use of paper and card in printing of
publications, office supplies; timber used in
offices and stand construction for events

Construction

Build and take down of exhibition stands;
venue development

Hospitality & venues

Use of exhibition centres, hotels, trade centres
and other venues to host events and foraccommodation of attendees

Manufacturing

Manufacture of small marketing materials,
such as lanyards and badges; print production
including impacts associated with binding, inks

MiningMineral and metal-based materials used in
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Risk management and mitigation
We manage the risk of modern slavery occurring in our business operations
or supply chains in a range of ways, including targeted checks and actions.
Our risk management and mitigation actions take into
account the risk factors outlined in pages nine andten. Measures include the following:• Embedding the requirement to comply with theBusiness Partner Code of Conduct in tendering
processes, standard contracts and frameworkagreements across the Group, with a commitment
to ethical procurement built into the procurement
strategy• Inclusion of anti-modern slavery and anti-childlabour clauses in manuals provided to exhibitors at
events, plus a requirement for valid work permits,
ID badges, and a prohibition on the presence ofchildren during build and breakdown• Training and communication, including on risk red
flags to enable improved identification of potential
use of forced labour• Internal recruitment processes, including identity
and rights to work checks, payment of a Living Wage,and a new commitment to the “employer pays”
principle• Provision and communication of a third-party
managed confidential or anonymous reporting lines,
available to colleagues and third parties in multiple
languages• In-person operational audits of events, looking
at procedures, labour usage, checking for minors
on site, with more extensive checks of eventsin locations where labour abuses are moreprevalent
Certain standard processes, such as inperson monitoring by operational teams forthe presence of children and forced labouron site during event construction, or site
visits by Group Internal Audit, were more
limited in 2020 owing to fewer events being
operated and the impact of pandemic travel
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Specific risk mitigation activity
Use of paper & timber
The illegal timber trade is frequently associated withlarge-scale corruption, destruction of rare species’
habitat, organised crime and serious human rights
abuses, including the use of forced and child labour.
Informa is committed to ensuring that, as far as weare able, our offices and products make use only oftimber or paper that holds a responsible sourcing
certificate such as the FSC, which incorporates corelabour requirements into its system and Chain of
Custody Standards, including the effective abolition ofchild and forced labour.
Informa has committed to a KPI that 95% of our paper
and timber is sourced from sustainable, certified
sources, with a long-term target of 100%. This KPI
is reported annually in our Sustainability Reportand in 2020 exceeded the interim target, with 96%
of paper derived from certified sources. The Group
Paper & Timber Sourcing Policy, Code of Conduct andGroup Sustainability Policy all contain the mandate
to source paper and timber from certified sources
where possible, whether ordering directly or throughcontractors. Colleagues sourcing timber or paper inSouth America, South East Asia, Africa and the Middle
East that is not certified sustainable or recycled , must
conduct additional due diligence, and the policy isrequired to form part of all contracts with applicablesuppliers.

Events and exhibitions ISEMS
Informa operates a Sustainable Event Management
System, known as ISEMS, which embeds key
sustainability considerations into all of our events
whether they are face to face or virtual.
Following the launch of ISEMS in 2019, roll out
continued in 2020. Some of the most relevant
areas ISEMS looks to address include responsible
procurement, stakeholder engagement andcommunity and wellbeing impacts.
Over 150 events have now completed the initial tier,with 17 now graduating to the more advanced level.
This advanced level contains a section on “BusinessGovernance” which looks at compliance with Informa’s
Code of Conduct, including bribery, legal complianceand modern slavery.
Compliance with the ISEMS programme is tracked
and monitored by the Group Sustainability team, andreported as part of the annual Sustainability Report.

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Print production

Journals production procurement
In 2020, the Journals production procurement teamin our Taylor & Francis division worked to design a
programme to identify the risk of modern slavery
in the product supply chain, including planning forcorrective actions to protect any individuals affected,
should forced or child labour be discovered in the
supply chain.

As a first stage, the team developed and issued
a new and comprehensive Human Rights andModern Slavery questionnaire to all pre-press
suppliers, seeking to understand the suppliers’ own
programmes to prevent or identify forced labour. The
intention is to supplement this with in-person visits
and checks when international travel is more easy to
do. The questionnaire functions also as a mid-contract
checkpoint, to re-confirm commitments made during
the tendering process. Suppliers in receipt of thequestionnaire include some of Taylor & Francis’ largest
business partners in higher risk locations, as identified
by the risk assessment processes described earlier inthis report.
Responses to the questionnaire will be assessed by
the Procurement and Compliance teams, who will
identify any follow-up actions that may need to betaken. The programme will be extended to other key
areas of the supply chain in 2021.

The Book Chain Project
Informa remained a member of the Book Chain
Project in 2020, a collaborative project which aims
to enable publishers to make better informed
purchasing decisions by collecting and analysing
data on key publishing supply chain stakeholders.

The Project, managed by Carnstone, a specialist
consultancy, focuses on three specific areas:

Forest Sourcing

Chemicals & Materials

Labour & environment

Informa focused on the Labour & Environment partof the Project, which sets out clearly publishers’
expectations on labour practices, and environmental
management and hosts the publishing industry
Code of Conduct. The Code of Conduct, based on
existing internationally-recognised Codes and Laws,
is supported by a requirement for all suppliers tocomplete audits.
Print suppliers from countries identified as highest
risk of poor labour and environmental practices are
required to complete a third party audit, such as ICTI,SMETA, SA8000, WCA or BSCI. All of Taylor & Francis’
suppliers involved in journals production to which theBook Chain is relevant have signed up to the Book
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Contributions to global modern slavery efforts
Sustainable Development Goals
The UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
form the framework through which government,
businesses and society can work together to address
the biggest challenges facing the world. At Informa,
we have made a commitment to help promote theachievement of the SDGs as part of our FasterForward
Sustainability programme. Our brands help solvethese major global challenges through the specialist
knowledge we provide to our customers and markets,and the networks and communities we support.
We map our products and brands against the SDGs
they contribute to and report this in our annual
Sustainability Report.
One of the SDGs on which we particularly focus is
SDG 8, Decent Work and Economic Growth. This SDG
includes the subsidiary goal, SDG 8.7: “take immediate
and effective measures to eradicate forced labour, end
modern slavery and human trafficking and secure theprohibition and elimination of the worst forms of childlabour”. SDG8 is one of the top four Sustainable
Development Goals to which Informa’s brands
contributed in 2020.
In the area of modern slavery, human trafficking andchild labour, we publish research that fosters a greater
understanding of its impacts and of the current antislavery legislative frameworks.

In 2020, this included over 1,200 articles inpublications including the International Journal of
Human Rights, the Journal of Human Trafficking andSlavery & Abolition.
Content relating to SDG8 is also included in Taylor &Francis’s online collection, Sustainable Development
Goals Online (SDGO), which provides customers witha holistic online library that supports the efforts ofacademia and professionals to access key research onthese most critical global issues. SDGO brings together
an interdisciplinary collection of digital content
mapped to all 17 of the UN’s SDGs, and includes morethan 12,000 of the most important and relevant bookchapters and journal articles.

Indices
Informa continues to participate in a number ofbenchmarks and indices, through which we provide
information on our work on human rights, modern
slavery and other labour rights abuses within ourbusiness and supply chain.
We retained our place in the Dow Jones Sustainability
Index in 2020, with our highest score to date. Informa
is also a member of the Ethibel® Sustainability Index
Excellence Europe and the FTSE4Good, amongst
others.

Industry associations
Informa, and its subsidiary brands and businesses,
remains a member of multiple industry associations
that run programmes targeting modern slavery,
human trafficking, and child labour, including the
Global Association of the Exhibition Industry and theInternational Association of Exhibitions and Events.
Informa’s Senior Sustainability Manager was chair of
the sustainability working group of the Event Industry
Alliance, which brings together the Association of
Event Organisers, the Association of Event Venues
and the Event Suppliers and Services Association.
In 2020, the working group developed a newand comprehensive sustainability commitments
framework for members of the organisations, whichcontains a section on human trafficking and modern
slavery. The framework is intended to be launchedin 2021.
Informa’s Head of Sustainability remains a memberof the Event Industry Council (EIC)’s Sustainability
Committee, which sets the EIC’s sustainability strategy
and the Group is a launching signatory to the EIC’s
Principles, which include Basic Social Considerations,
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Monitoring, effectiveness and response
Monitoring and reporting
Informa’s internal audit team reviews specific elementsof this programme as part of their operational audits,reviewing procedures, labour usage and monitoring forminors on site, with more extensive checks in locations
understood to be higher risk. Actions identified aremanaged to completion and any non-completed
actions are raised with the Group Audit Committee.
The Business Partner Code of Conduct contains
provisions for audit and, where compliance with theCode has been agreed as part of a contract, we reserve
the right to terminate that agreement in the event that
non-compliance is discovered, and is repeated, severeor cannot be resolved. In-person visits by relationshipowners to our strategic business partners, which
provide additional opportunities for audit, have largely
been postponed during 2020 but are intended to beresumed once it is judged safe to do so.
The Group Compliance team reports on training
completion statistics, which includes our modern
slavery content, to the Group Risk Committee, andtracks completion levels for new joiners as part of ourformal risk management process; training completion
rates are reported in the Annual Report.
The Group Compliance team monitor reports madevia the Speak Up line to ensure they are managed
appropriately and consistently, and provide training tomembers of the teams engaged in breach investigationand management. Breaches of our Code of Conduct
and associated Global Policies are reported to the
Risk Committee and Board; volumes of breaches andresolution times are tracked.

Response
While our Business Partner Code and other agreementswith our suppliers and exhibitors give us the ability
to terminate contracts in the event of a breach, we
recognise that the use of modern slavery or forced
labour is not a problem that is likely to be resolved bysuch action.
Our intention, in the event that the use of forced or
child labour is discovered amongst our supply chain
or operations, is to seek a constructive solution, and
we engage with those responsible for procurement tocommunicate this and develop alternative actions.
Colleagues are mandated to comply with the Code of
Conduct and associated Global Policies. 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.

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, and also of
the controls or other actions which aim at reducing
exposure to the risk. The pandemic reduced theopportunities to observe and monitor circumstances
first hand in 2020. Due to a reduction in the number offace to face events run by Informa, it also had the effectof reducing our overall operational exposure.
We have received no reports in 2020 of cases ofsuspected or actual modern slavery or child labour,whether through our Speak Up line or other reporting
channels, material or otherwise. In addition, noneof our current business partners reported any suchconcerns to us, via their direct contacts with ouroperational teams, or via our Speak Up line or any
other channel.
Internal audit and operational team checks did notdiscover or observe any instances of forced or childlabour, suspected or actual, at our events in 2020,
where these visits were possible and where eventswere held in person.

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