Downing Strategic Micro-Cap Investment Trust plc is committed to maintaining the highest standards of ethical behaviour and expects the same of its business partners. The use of slavery and human trafficking is unacceptable and entirely incompatible with its ethics as a business. Downing Strategic Micro-Cap Investment Trust plc believes that all efforts should be made to eliminate it from its supply chains.
Given what Downing Strategic Micro-Cap Investment Trust plc understands to be a low risk profile of anyone supplying it with services being involved in slavery and/or human trafficking, it believes its current procedures and ability to rely on regulatory oversight in relation to professional services are sufficient in this regard.
Hugh Aldous
Non-Executive Chairman
January 2023
