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Modern Slavery Act Statement 2025

This statement is made by PA Consulting Group Limited pursuant to clause 54, Part 6 of the UK Modern Slavery Act 2015 and applies to the UK business of PA Consulting group, which includes PA Consulting Services Limited and PA Holdings Limited.

About our organisation

We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future. As strategies, technologies, and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity. Our diverse teams of experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results.

We are about 4,000 strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and technologists. And we have deep expertise in consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport. Our teams operate globally from offices across the UK, Ireland, US, Nordics, and Netherlands.

PA Consulting Group Limited is the parent company of the PA Consulting group of companies. Our principal operating subsidiary in the UK is PA Consulting Services Limited. PA Consulting Services Limited provides a range of consultancy services to clients, which are delivered by employees of PA Consulting Services Limited and PA Holdings Limited. For more information on the PA Consulting group, see our Annual Report for the year ended 31 December 2024.

Our assessment of the risk of modern slavery in our operations and supply chains

At PA we prize our ethical approach and are committed to complying with all laws and regulations applicable to our operations, including taking steps to ensure that there is no human trafficking or slavery in our supply chain, or within any part of our business.

We believe that, due to the nature of our business and the services that we provide to our clients, the markets in which we operate, the nature of the goods and services which we procure, the locations from which we procure them, and our procurement practices, the risk of human trafficking or slavery occurring in our business or in our supply chain is low.

Notwithstanding this, we are committed to continual improvement in managing human rights and modern slavery risk in our supply chain, and we review our policies and procedures and assess the risks within our business and supply chain regularly.

Our core values

Our success is founded on a set of core values. Our values underpin our purpose and help deliver our strategy, guiding our day-to-day behaviours and the decisions we take. They are authentic to who we are at our best, and what we aspire to be.

These core values commit PA and every one of our people to environmental stewardship, safe work environments and socially responsible behaviour in our workplaces and in our communities, as well as in the consulting services we provide to our clients.

Our code of conduct and our corporate social responsibility policy are based on our core values and drive the way we behave and govern our conduct towards our people, our suppliers, and our wider stakeholder community.

Our employment practices

Our people are at the heart of everything we do. Every day, our multidisciplinary teams collaborate, bringing diverse expertise and insights to help our clients tackle the world’s most complex challenges. We are just as dedicated to creating an exceptional workplace as we are to delivering impactful results. That’s why we’ve built a culture that fosters collaboration, diversity, inclusion, and growth – where our people feel valued, empowered, and inspired to do their best work.

At PA we are committed to the equal treatment of all, and we treat all our people with dignity and respect, providing a productive working environment free from discrimination, victimisation, coercive pressure, bullying and harassment. We are a UK Living Wage accredited employer, and we use only specified, reputable employment agencies to source labour and verify the practices of any new agency before accepting workers from that agency.

We have been a participant in the United Nations Global Compact since 2007. This is a public commitment to ensuring our operations and strategy is in line with internationally accepted principles on human rights, labour, the environment, and prevention of corruption, and that our actions are in line with the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

PA also complies with the Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI) base code, which is founded on the conventions of the International Labour Organisation and is an internationally recognised code of good labour practice. The minimum standard provisions of the ETI base code are: employment is freely chosen; conditions are safe and hygienic; no child labour is used; living wages are paid; working hours are not excessive; no discrimination is practiced; regular employment is provided; and no harsh or inhumane treatment is allowed.

Our approach to supplier selection

PA chooses suppliers on the basis of fair and transparent principles, and it encourages its suppliers to adopt best practices in terms of human rights and diversity; it assesses this through its supplier pre-qualification questionnaire which includes mandatory sections on compliance with relevant laws and regulations, including those relating to human rights and modern slavery. PA also asks its suppliers to agree to PA’s supplier code of conduct, or to provide their own code of conduct which must meet PA’s minimum standards. 93% of PA’s suppliers have agreed to the terms of PA’s code of conduct and the remainder have their own code of conduct which meets PA’s minimum standards.

As part of our supplier identification and onboarding process, we review suppliers based on the following criteria:

  • Do not have operations in, or source goods or services from, high-risk countries, as identified in the Walk Free Global Slavery Index as those where modern forms of slavery or human trafficking are more likely to occur.
  • Have taken adequate steps to ensure that slavery and human trafficking are not taking place within its business or supply chain.
  • Have, if applicable, published a slavery and human trafficking statement for the current financial year.
  • Have adequate policies and systems to prevent the use of illegally or unethically sourced materials and prevent improper procurement of conflict materials.
  • Have adequate procedures in place to prevent bribery.
  • Are committed to high labour standards, including ensuring fair working hours.
  • Are an accredited Living Wage employer, who pay all directly employed staff at or above the currently established real Living Wage.
  • Have certain social standard accreditations, such as SA8000 or ISO26000.
  • Have a documented Diversity and/or Equal Opportunities policy.

PA carries out an annual review of its supply chain, by mapping its suppliers to identify those that are operating in higher risks countries or sectors. The mapping exercise is carried out using the Walk Free Global Slavery index report which provides information on higher risk countries and sectors, which we map against our own supplier data to identify where further due diligence may be required. Our 2025 annual review demonstrated that less than one percent of our supply chain is operating in high-risk countries or sectors. For those identified as operating in higher-risk countries or sectors, additional due diligence has been carried out.

Training and engagement

At PA we recognise the importance of stakeholder engagement. Our commitments and actions in combatting modern slavery have been communicated to the relevant entities and functions within PA and we have ensured that relevant areas of PA are aware of what actions need to be taken to identify, assess, and address modern slavery risks in our operations and supply chains. All PA staff undertake mandatory annual training and an assessment on PA’s code of conduct and the group-wide policies and procedures that they must comply with in order to work at PA. We provide more in-depth training to those teams that we consider responsible for implementing measures or controls to help mitigate modern slavery risks.

We encourage people across PA to take active responsibility for improving our performance and practices and for drawing attention to behaviours or other issues that give them concern. To encourage feedback and suggestions, PA has implemented procedures and mechanisms to create a culture that allows people to speak up with confidence and in good faith in the expectation of being heard.

Our people and third parties are able to raise concerns anonymously through a confidential whistle blowing helpline that is operated by an external firm. Third parties, including clients and suppliers, can similarly provide feedback (anonymously or named) through PA’s external website The procedure for raising concerns is outlined in our supplier code of conduct

This statement was approved by the boards of PA Consulting Group Limited, PA Consulting Services Limited and PA Holdings Limited on 12 June 2025.

Christian Norris
Chief Executive Officer
PA Consulting