Part 1: Health Service in England: Integration, Collaboration and Other Changes Secretary of State’s functions Section 47: Review into NHS supply chains
Subsection 1 requires the Secretary of State to carry out a review into the risk of slavery and human trafficking taking place in relation to people involved in NHS supply chains.
	Subsection 2 allows the Secretary of State to determine which NHS supply chains to consider as part of the review or otherwise limit the scope of the review.
	Subsection 3 specifies that the review must however include a significant proportion of the NHS supply chains for cotton based products in relation to which companies formed under section 223 of the NHS Act 2006 (taken as a whole) exercise functions.
	Subsection 4 requires the Secretary of State to publish and lay before Parliament a report on the outcome of the review within 18 months of the section coming into force.
	Subsection 5 specifies that this report must describe the scope of and methodology used in carrying out the review.
	Subsection 6 requires that the report must include any views of the Secretary of State as to steps that should be taken to mitigate the risk of slavery and human trafficking taking place in relation to people involved in NHS supply chains.
	Subsection 7 requires NHS England to assist in the carrying out of the review or the preparation of the report, if requested to do so by the Secretary of State.
	Subsection 8 defines the health service in England, the NHS supply chain, and slavery and human trafficking for the purposes of this section.