2023

Modern Slavery
Act Statement

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Growth& Opportunity
Informa is a business focused on
growth. We have deliberately andprogressively expanded our positionsin the specialist markets we serve,and championed our customers
by continuously investing in the
products and services that help themlearn more, know more and do more.

Sustainable, long-term business growth and consistentfinancial performance simply cannot exist without an
ongoing focus on, and continuous investment into, socialand environmental progress and performance too.

continues. It includes engaging partners and suppliers
who reflect our values and commitments as a responsible
business, something that is codified and reinforced bypolicies, processes and frameworks.

And this is what we do at Informa. We have a range ofprogrammes in place – from sustainability to diversity
and inclusion, health and safety and many more – that
focus on the topics closest to our markets and products
and address the areas that matter most and deliver themost benefits to our customers, partners, colleagues,
shareholders and broader communities.

Where we can, we also aim to make a positive contribution
to wider efforts against modern slavery, including
through the specialist research we publish on this subject
and through taking part in wider industry efforts andcollaborations.

This focus, and many of these programmes, extend to ourpartnerships too. Throughout the company, we work witha range of business partners and are proud of the close,collaborative and mutually beneficial relationships we havebuilt in key areas.
However, we recognise that our priorities, programmes
and investments are not the default in every company orworkplace.
Our work to ensure that, as far as we are able, modern
slavery, child labour and human trafficking does not takeplace anywhere in our operations or in our supply chain,This report shares an overview of our commitments,
governance, frameworks and the positive contributions weseek to make. We welcome any questions or feedback.

Stephen A. Carter
Group Chief Executive

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UK statutory guidance Transparency in Supply Chains: a practical guide.

Contents

About this statement

Governance of modern slavery programme

1. Organisational structure and supply chains:
information on our business structures, divisions,colleagues and supply chains

This document comprises Informa’s annual Modern Slavery
Statement for the financial year ending 31 December 2023.
It is published in accordance with the UK Modern Slavery
Act 2015 and is a record of the actions taken by Informa
PLC and its subsidiaries to prevent modern slavery, forced
labour and human trafficking from its business operations
and supply chain.

Informa’s modern slavery programme is overseen by
the Group and Divisional Compliance functions underthe Head of Group Compliance. It is supported by Groupfunctions including Legal, Sustainability, Human Resources
and Internal Audit, and continues to be implemented
by Operational and Procurement teams throughout thecompany. The Group General Counsel has oversight of the
programme at the Executive Management Team level.

2. Policies: our Code of Conduct and policies relating
to modern slavery
3. Due diligence: our due diligence processes related
to the identification and control of modern slavery risk
4. Risk assessment and management: our risk
assessment processes, the areas of our business andsupply chain where we have identified potential modern
slavery risk, and the action we take to manage these risks
5. Effectiveness: the methods we use to assess theeffectiveness of 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:
our engagement in the global work undertaken to combat
modern slavery, including research, publications andindustry engagement

This Statement was approved by the Board of Directors ofInforma PLC in June 2024 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 aparent company. The Informa subsidiaries that fall in scopeof the Modern Slavery Act are Informa UK Limited, Informa
Connect Limited and Informa Telecoms & Media Limited;the full list of our subsidiaries can be found in Informa’s
2023 Annual Report.

The programme sits within our wider Human Rights
programme and forms part of the broader work we do tosupport and promote responsible business. We operate
in compliance with local laws, are committed to respecting
internationally recognised human rights standards, guided
by the United Nations Guiding Principles for Business andHuman Rights, the International Bill of Human Rights andthe International Labour Organisation’s Declaration on
Fundamental Principles and Rights to Work.

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Informa:our organisational structure
Informa operates in the Knowledge and Information
Economy, focusing on two main markets: Academic
Markets and Business-to Business (B2B) Markets. We
connect people at the right time in powerful ways, deliver
specialist knowledge and unique, trusted content, andenable discovery via live and on-demand events, expert
research, and specialist media and research brands.
Informa is listed on the London Stock Exchange and isa member of the FTSE 100 group of companies, withrevenues of around £3.2bn in 2023.

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

Our divisions
We are organised into four commercial divisions, with one support division that houses
our group functions and shared operations.

AcademicMarkets

B2B Markets

GlobalSupportOur colleagues
At the end of 2023, Informa employed over 12,000
colleagues located in around 30 countries, supported
by around 4,000 contracted workers.
These contracted workers include researchers andanalysts, subject matter experts who contribute to or edit
our journals, people who help deliver events and otherprofessionals including those helping to provide managed
technology services.
We follow a set of consistent recruitment principles toensure fairness and avoid bias during recruitment andhelp us attract a diverse workforce.

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Academic research,advanced learningand open researchInformaMarkets
Transaction-led live
and on-demand
eventsInforma
Connect
Content-led live andon-demand events

InformaTech
B2B digital
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Informa’s

We aim to form strong relationships with our key business
partners and expect all our suppliers to work in a way thataligns with our own standards and guiding principles. The
services and areas in which we most commonly worked
with suppliers in 2023 include:

Event venues and construction

Subject matter experts, speakers, partnerships

Professional services

Marketing, promotion and advertising

Print, print management and distribution

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During 2023, Informa worked with around 36,000 business
partners in nearly 150 countries to deliver our products andservices and keep our operations running successfully.

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

Supplier relationship management
Supplier management is overseen by the teams that areclosest to the business partner, who are enabled to makedecisions within consistent frameworks.

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Our

Code of Conduct&

Policies

Informa’s Code of Conduct and Policies are available on
our website and intranet. Their contents are regularly
reviewed by subject matter experts, with input from ourinternal Legal team and external specialist advisers as
required. Significant changes to policy are discussed andapproved at Executive Committee level.

Our Human Rights Policy
Our Human Rights Policy focuses on eight areas thatare specific to supporting human rights and particularly
relevant to our business activities, including responsible
content, equality, and labour practices and working
conditions.
The Policy, and our modern slavery and child and forced
labour content in our training and Code of Conduct
was developed with input from external human rights
specialists and sets out our support for the UN’s Universal
Declaration of Human Rights.

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Informa’s Code of Conduct and associated Policies
contain the commitments and describe the processes
that support our Modern Slavery programme.
The Code includes our commitment to respect
internationally recognised human rights. It has a section
on modern slavery and child labour that includes ourintent to seek to eliminate modern slavery, humantrafficking, forced and child labour from our business andsupply chain. It also details the responsibilities colleagues
have when engaging in recruitment, procurement or whenworking off-site.

and contains sections on modern slavery and on
child labour.

The Code of Conduct applies to everyone who works
for Informa or on our behalf, including both permanentcolleagues and temporary or contract workers. Our Codeof Conduct is available here.

Speak Up – our whistleblowing policy

Our Sustainability Policy
Informa’s Sustainability Policy brings together our policy
and commitments on environmental and social activities.
It includes specific requirements for colleagues andpartners engaged in procurement and recruitment.

Our Code of Conduct

Our Business Partner Code of Conduct

Informa’s Code of Conduct, How we work at Informa,provides clear information on our commitments andthe behaviour we expect from colleagues, aligned to our
guiding principles and culture more broadly.

Our Business Partner Code of Conduct, which aligns
with our colleague Code of Conduct, is applicable to allof Informa’s business partners, including our suppliers,
contractors and agents. It is available in eight languages

The Code makes clear that business partners must notengage in, work with or subcontract to any third party
that engages in the use of forced labour, child labouror any labour that makes use of human trafficking or
restricts freedom of movement.

Guidance on how to report concerns through ourconfidential whistleblowing line, Speak Up, and theprotections available to those who report, is included in
all our Policies, our Code of Conduct, and our Business
Partner Code of Conduct, which also requires business
partners to share such information with any of theiremployees engaged in work with Informa.
Our Speaking Up Policy includes additional detailabout the other reporting channels available, and theinvestigations process. Further information on ourwhistleblowing provision can be read later in thisstatement.

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Due Diligence
Supplier relationship management& due diligence
We manage our supplier relationships in a tailored way.
The teams closest to the supplier have the flexibility
to make decisions within consistent company-wide
frameworks. Additional audits, enhanced due diligence andexecutive level oversight are applied to our most important
relationships.
Our enhanced supplier due diligence processes include
checks on compliance, social responsibility and antiexploitation of labour. We also seek to identify otherfactors, such as financial issues that might enhance therisk of modern slavery or other labour abuses.
Our commitments to ethical and lawful behaviour andour expectations of others are clearly articulated in our
Business Partner Code of Conduct. This is provided toall suppliers, contractors, and agents and built into ourformal procurement processes. We reserve the right toterminate any contract if non-compliance is discovered andis repeated, severe or cannot be resolved.
We incorporate due diligence on modern slavery,
environmental and governance matters into procurement
processes for key company-wide technology suppliers,
including when tendering and at contract renewal. Thisis designed to ensure our major technology partners arealigned and meeting the standards we would expect.

In Taylor & Francis, our Global Supplier Management team
operate an annual modern slavery and human rights
questionnaire. Suppliers wishing to partner with the teamin 2023 were pre-screened, and those that did not showalignment with our commitments and standards would not
be invited to continue with the process.

Recruitment due diligence
Colleagues recruited to Informa are subject to identity
checks. We confirm their right to work in that location
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Risk identification and assessment
Informa follows a four-stage risk management process tooversee our principal risks and subrisks. We identify risks,assess them, respond to and manage them, and monitor
and report on them.
We have a clear governance structure in which
accountabilities are defined and there is appropriate
expertise to properly oversee risks at each stage.
We analyse risk against a set of financial and nonfinancial assessment criteria, considering both likelihoodand impact. In our assessment of the risk of exposure
to modern slavery in Informa’s operations and supply
chain, we overlay the broader Group Risk management
processes with modern slavery-specific considerations,seen from the perspective of the rights holders and withconsideration of remedy. Sources of data used to assess
our modern slavery risk include the Global Slavery Index,

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

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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 orservice 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 complianceand/or human rights programme or similarcommitments or actions
Final assessment of the specific risks attached to the
supplier relationship is dependent on the interrelationshipof these indicators, where one factor may significantly
mitigate another.

Material Matters
In 2023, we completed a double materiality assessment.
This formally assessed what non-financial topics are mostimpactful and relevant to Informa’s business, and what
aspects of our business are most impactful and relevant
to other stakeholders.
Our partner Carnstone interviewed a group of colleagues
and investors and reviewed our divisional risk registers,
colleague surveys, a sample of requests for informationfrom customers and suppliers and reports from indices thatassess Informa’s non-financial performance. Carnstone also
drew on previous assessments and industry reports.
This review identified 14 areas as important, including
human rights and fair working conditions. We havesubsequently evaluated these areas against our current
programmes to ensure that we are managing these risks
appropriately and giving them the right level of focus. The
materiality assessment will be repeated on a larger scale
over the next two years and the findings will help informthe ongoing development of the programme.

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Our geographic risk

Colleagues

Our analysis of geographical risk is based on the countries
and regions in which Informa’s colleagues and business
partners work and live and is reviewed annually.

2023

2023

12,000+ colleagues
in 36 countries

36,000 suppliersin nearly
150 countries

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80% of colleagues
in locations
assessed as low ormoderate risk ofmodern slavery

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87% of procurement
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in locations assessed
as low or moderate
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Very high risk

69% of our permanent colleague population
is locatedinModerateLow
countries with the lowest incidence of modern slavery,
including United Kingdom, United States, Canada andJapan. Colleagues in locations assessed as moderate makeup a further 11%.
Less than 0.25% of our colleagues are located in countries
identified by our reference sources, such as the Global
Slavery Index, as having a very high risk of modern
slavery or forced labour. These include Thailand andthe Philippines. The nature of Informa’s business inthese locations means that most of our colleagues areprofessionally qualified or specialists in their role, andwork in more advanced fields than is typical for those mostat risk of modern slavery.

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ModerateHigh

Very high risk

87%
expenditure
Highof our procurement
Moderate
Very high risk
High took place
Veryinhigh riskLowlocations identified as having low or moderate risk ofmodern slavery, according to our assessment criteria andsources.
Our expenditure in locations assessed as very high risk
stands at less than 0.1%. This includes expenditureassociated with our events in Thailand and the Philippines.
We continue to monitor and manage the risk associatedwith partnerships in these locations, including additionalrisk management measures for our most significant
ongoing partnerships. Other suppliers from these higher
risk locations include academics, subject matter experts
and speakers at our events, and the local offices of global
professional services firms, which are roles and business
partners that tend to be at a lower risk of modern slavery.

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Partnershipareas of focus
Areas of higher risk, identified by our risk management
framework, are described below.

Timber & forestry
Paper and card used in printed material
and office supplies; timber used in standconstruction for events

Construction
Build and take down of exhibition stands; venue
development including temporary structures;
office maintenance and upgrade

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

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risk:
We partner with suppliers to deliver certain services.
Different products and industries have different
levels of exposure to the risk of labour rights abuses.

Manufacturing
Manufacture of small marketing materials,
including lanyards; print production; technology
including IT hardware, reusable stands

MiningExtracted minerals and metals used in theextended supply chain, including reusable
stands for events, IT hardware, printing andoffice supplies

Services
Service suppliers to Informa’s offices andevents, including security, cleaning, catering,
maintenance and waste management
We also recognise the specific modern-slavery risks
attached to the use of unskilled temporary labour,
especially at the point of recruitment or when such labour
is drawn from vulnerable groups.

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Risk management& mitigation

We have a mature enterprise risk management programme,
which helps address the risk of modern slavery occurring inour business operations or supply chains.

Our risk management, control and mitigation actions
include:•	Embedding the requirement to comply with the Business
Partner Code of Conduct in tendering processes,
standard contracts and framework agreements acrossthe Group• Using hotel venue providers with established antimodern slavery and trafficking programmes•	Engagement with editors and authors on the ethics ofthe research we publish, including use of valid informed
consent for clinical trial participants, to help address
the risk of coerced participation and exploitation ofvulnerable communities, such as prison populations•	Engagement with supplier risk management providers
to manage due diligence on key publishing business
partners•	Including clauses in exhibitor manuals that prohibit thepresence of children during build and breakdown at B2B
events and require valid work permits and ID badges

The Group Internal Audit team visits a selection of event
sites each year to audit operations, and these include
child labour and site access checks.

•	In-person monitoring by Operations and Health, Safety& Security teams for the presence of children and forced
labour on site during high-risk event construction

Our procurement teams also visit a selection of key
strategic business partners each year, giving us an
opportunity to validate the responses given to desktop
modern slavery and human rights due diligence
and audits.

•	Provision and communication of a third party-managed
confidential reporting service, Speak Up, available tocolleagues and third parties in multiple languages•	Internal recruitment processes, including identity
and rights to work checks and paying at least the Living
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Examples of
specific risk mitigation activity
Use of paper and timber
The illegal or unsustainable harvest of timber is frequently
associated with serious human rights abuses, including theuse of forced and child labour.
We are committed to ensuring that, as far as possible,
the timber and paper used in our offices and products issourced from responsibly managed, sustainable forests,
and holds a responsible sourcing certificate, such as one
from the FSC. Responsible sourcing programmes such asthese incorporate certain labour requirements into theirsystems and chain of custody standards, including theeffective abolition of child and forced labour.
The Group Paper & Timber Sourcing Policy, Codeof Conduct and Group Sustainability Policy containthis mandate, whether we order directly or throughcontractors. Colleagues sourcing timber or paper in SouthAmerica, South East Asia, Africa and the Middle East thatis not certified sustainable or recycled must conduct
additional due diligence, and the policy is required toform part of all contracts with applicable suppliers. The
Sustainability team conducts spot checks throughout thebusiness. Our long-term goal is for 100% of paper andtimber to come from certified or recycled sources, and in
2023, 98% of paper was obtained from certified sources,
an increase of 4% on the previous year.

Better Stands
Our Better Stands programme seeks to encourage, andsubsequently require, exhibitors to switch from the useof disposable custom-built stands to reusable standstructures.
As well as reducing waste and the use of single-use
timber products, reusable stand structures are quicker
and simpler to set up, improving health and safety risk
exposure and reducing the need for some forms of labourthat are potentially more vulnerable to exploited andchild labour.
We have also joined forces with other event organisers
to expand Better Stands across the events industry.

Sustainable event management
Our Sustainable Event Fundamentals Framework, usedby teams across Informa, is a key way we are embedding
sustainability and responsibility considerations into all
our events in a consistent and trackable way.
The framework includes responsible procurement,
stakeholder engagement and community and wellbeing
impacts. Its advanced programme contains a section
on business governance which looks at compliancewith Informa’s Code of Conduct, including bribery, legal
compliance and modern slavery.
377 events participated in the sustainable event
management framework in 2023. Compliance with theprogramme is tracked and monitored by the Group
Sustainability team and reported as part of the annual
Sustainability Report.

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Intermediary Due Diligence
PSI IPV (PSI) provides centralised due diligence services
focused on sales agents and intermediaries working
with the publishing industry, including the provision oftraining, background checks, and the maintenance of acentral due diligence register. Following our engagementwith PSI in 2022 to extend their due diligence to include
human trafficking and modern slavery, the intermediaries
and sales agents Taylor & Francis works with havebeen completing this additional due diligence module
throughout 2023.

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Global Supplier Management

The Book Chain Project

Taylor & Francis’s Global Supplier Management team runs
an annual programme of activities to manage the risk ofmodern slavery in the supply chain.

Taylor & Francis continues to be a member of the Book
Chain Project, a collaborative project that helps publishers
make better informed purchasing decisions by collecting
and analysing data on key publishing supply chain
stakeholders.

This includes issuing an annual modern slavery andhuman rights questionnaire to its suppliers and assessing
any changes in response. It also includes regular direct
engagement with suppliers, including visits to their sites
to validate the information provided and help spot any
potential issues. The Global Supplier Management teamhas trained local business teams to support with thesevisits, including in India where several major suppliers
are based.
There were no indications modern slavery or child labourat any suppliers visited in 2023.

Our involvement with the project, managed by Carnstone,a specialist consultancy, focuses on:

Forest Sourcing

Labour & Environment
Modern slavery risk management falls under the Labour& Environment section. This clearly sets out our andthe industry’s expectations on labour practices andenvironmental management and requires compliancewith the publishing industry Code of Conduct. The Codeof Conduct, based on existing internationally recognised
Codes and Laws, is supported by a requirement for
suppliers to complete audits.
Suppliers from countries identified as having the highest
risk of poor labour and environmental practices are
required to complete a third-party audit, such as ICTI,SMETA, SA8000, WCA or BSCI. Findings of concern are
flagged to Taylor & Francis. In 2023, a range of suppliers inIndia and other countries submitted these audit reports,
and 79% of registered suppliers have submitted responses
to The Book Chain Project’s Labour & Environment
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Effectiveness:monitoring,

reportingkey indicators&

Monitoring, report and audit processes
Our Internal Audit team reviews elements of our modern
slavery programme as part of their operational audits,reviewing procedures, labour usage and monitoring
for minors on site at events. Any actions identified aremanaged to completion and any non-completed actions
are raised with the Group Audit Committee.
Operational site audits took place as normal in 2023.
Questions related to modern slavery and child labour
are included in event audits. These include confirmingthat key contract provisions are being followed and that
ID checks are conducted on workers before entering thevenue, which helps ensure that underage workers are notadmitted. Divisional Compliance teams attended several
events in 2023 to conduct spot checks and deliver training
to colleagues and partners.
The Business Partner Code of Conduct contains
provisions for audit. Where compliance with this Codehas been agreed as part of a contract, we reserve theright to terminate that agreement in the event that noncompliance is discovered, and is repeated, severe orcannot be resolved. In-person visits by relationship owners
to our strategic business partners continued in 2023.

Group Compliance reports completion statistics for our
Code of Conduct training, which includes our modern
slavery content, to the Group Risk Committee and Board,and tracks completion levels for new joiners as part of ourformal risk management process for managing the riskof regulatory compliance. Training completion rates arereported in the Annual Report and Sustainability Report.
The team also monitors reports made via the Speak
Up line to ensure they are managed appropriately andconsistently. Breaches of our Code of Conduct andassociated Policies are reported to the Risk Committee
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External reporting: indicesInforma continues to participate in a number ofbenchmarks and indices, for which we provide detailsof our work on human rights, modern slavery and otherlabour rights abuses within our business and supply chain.
In 2023, we were ranked in the top 1% of our sector in
the Dow Jones Sustainability Index, achieved an AAA ESG
Rating from MSCI and scored in the top 10% for the S&P
Global ESG Score. Among other index ratings, Informa is amember of the FTSE4Good and the Ethibel Sustainability
Index Excellence Europe. The uplift of our MSCI ESG Ratingfrom AA in 2022 to AAA in 2023 recognises our resilienceto long-term financially relevant environmental, social andgovernance risk.

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Assessment of effectivenessWe received no reports in 2023 of cases of suspected or
actual modern slavery or child labour, whether throughour Speak Up line or other reporting channels, material
or otherwise. In addition, none of our current business
partners reported any such concerns to us, via their directcontacts with our operational teams, or via our Speak Upline or any other channel.
Our publishing and research ethics controls identified
a number of pieces of research that did not meet our
editorial standards in terms of informed consent, andwhich were not accepted for publication as a result.
Supplier due diligence questionnaire responses assessedin 2023 showed that the current suppliers who were asked
to respond demonstrated a good understanding of therisks of modern slavery and that they have programmes in

KPIs
KPIs relating to compliance training that increases awareness of the riskof modern slavery and child labour

2023 status

Target is 90% of new joiners complete the Code of Conduct training within 30 days

82% (December)

Target 95% completion for overall colleague population in year

96%

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	
Better stands: elimination of disposable stands from Informa Connect, Tech andInforma Markets North America by 2025

98%
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place to address this risk. No responses raised concerns,
though we recognise the limitations of this format andsupport this data with site visits where possible.
Internal audit and operational team checks did notdiscover or observe any instances of forced or child labour,
suspected or actual, at our events in 2023.

Responding to incidents or breaches ofmodern slavery policy
While we did not discover any cases of forced or childlabour in our supply chain or operations in 2023, we
nonetheless have measures in place that enable us
to respond to such an event should it happen.
While our Business Partner Code and other agreementswith our suppliers and exhibitors give us the ability toterminate contracts in the event of a breach, we recognisethat the use of modern slavery or forced labour is not
a problem that is likely to be resolved by such action.
In the event that the use of forced or child labour isdiscovered in our supply chain or operations, our intention
is to seek a constructive solution. We continue to engage
with our procurement teams to communicate this andto work with them to develop alternative actions.
Colleagues are mandated to comply with the Code of
Conduct and associated Policies. Breaches can resultin 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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Training

Opportunities to raise concerns

Code of Conduct training is compulsory for all colleagues.
To allow everyone to fully participate, it is available in ninelanguages. It 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 intention ofenhancing colleagues’ awareness and ability to mitigate
these risks in our supply chain and our own operations.
This content was custom developed to reflect the risks
identified in our risk assessment.

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.

Colleagues are required to make a commitment to comply
with the terms of our Code of Conduct before completingthe training.

New joiners
In 2023, all new joiners were given Code of Conduct
training on joining the company.
Overall completion stands at 96% for 2023, with 82%
of those colleagues having completed within 30 days.

To support the processes and controls in place to mitigate
modern slavery risk, we ensure that everyone who works
with us or for us, or who visits any of our events, has theopportunity to report things that they have seenor experienced, freely and in confidence. Our reporting
channels were the subject of regular communications
and a training campaign in 2023.

Speak Up
Our confidential whistleblowing line, Speak Up, is available
to all Informa colleagues, business partners and customers
to report issues or raise concerns and to access expert
support. Speak Up is hosted by a third party; reporting isalways in confidence and reporters may choose to remain
anonymous, where this is permitted in law. To facilitate
reporting, the line is available in 12 languages and users
can also make use of free phone lines in over 18 locations.

Business Partners who have signed up to our Business
Partner Code of Conduct are required to share the detailsof Speak Up with any of their employees who are working
with us or on our behalf.

Other reporting channels
Colleagues and third parties can also make reports
directly to teams, including senior management, HR
and Compliance if they prefer.

Zero retaliation
We are committed to zero retaliation against anyone who
makes a report in good faith or supports an investigation.
We extend this commitment to third parties who reportconcerns affecting our business.

Training on reporting & investigations
In 2023 we rolled out two custom training modules forcolleagues on speaking up; one for all colleagues, anda more in-depth module for line managers on how tohandle a concern if it is raised to them.

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Our contributions to anti-modern slavery
initiatives include delivering specialist knowledge
and research on human rights related topics
and playing an active role in industry bodies tomanage risk across our markets.

Academic research

Industry engagement

Taylor & Francis publishes an extensive range of researchon these topics. Journals we publish that focus on modern
slavery related topics include the Journal of Human
Trafficking, Slavery & Abolition, the International Journalof Human Rights, and the Nordic and Australian Journalsof Human Rights, with articles including the prevalence ofmodern slavery in major global sporting events, humantrafficking in regions in conflict, and the continued mental
health issues that human trafficking survivors face.

Informa, and its subsidiary brands and businesses,
remains a member of multiple industry associations thathave programmes to address modern slavery, humantrafficking, and child labour. These include:

This knowledge forms part of Taylor & Francis’s broader
online collection, Sustainable Development Goals Online(SDGO), which is a carefully curated interdisciplinary
collection of digital content mapped to the United
Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Informa
is committed to supporting higher education students,
lecturers, researchers and professionals as they learn
about, teach about, research and write about, and workout how to address the world’s most critical issues.

EFFECTIVENESS• the Global Association of the Exhibition Industry• the International Association of Exhibitions and Events• the Events Industry Council
As a member of these, and other, associationcommittees, we are able to work with peers andsuppliers to make our industries more sustainable.

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