Our policies and slavery statement

PRS Members and our Company Values

PRS members should conduct themselves in accordance with our Company Values of Integrity and Inclusiveness. While PRS will not actively monitor its members’ actions, in the event it becomes or is made aware of any violations of these values which may prejudice the success of PRS, the CEO may issue a written warning and/or refer the matter to the Members’ Council for further disciplinary action, including termination of membership.

PRS for Music: 2025 Modern Slavery Statement

This statement is made pursuant to section 54 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 (the “Act”). It applies to Performing Right Society Limited (“PRS”) and PRS for Music Limited (“PRSfM”) (together, “PRS for Music”). It sets out the steps that PRS for Music has taken in the 2025 financial year to ensure that slavery and human trafficking is not taking place in any part of its business, joint ventures and supply chains.

PRS for Music has a zero-tolerance approach to slavery and human trafficking. We are committed to having effective systems and controls in place to safeguard against any form of slavery or human trafficking taking place within our business, joint ventures and our supply chains.

Our organisation

PRS for Music licenses, collects and otherwise administers the performing rights in the musical works of the writer and publisher members of PRS.

PRS is a company limited by guarantee, owned by its writer and publisher members.

PRS has a wholly-owned subsidiary, PRSfM, which in turn owns various joint ventures, including International Copyright Enterprise Service Limited, ICE International Copyright Enterprise Germany GmbH, ICE Operations AB, Network of Music Partners (NMP) and PPL PRS Limited (collectively, the “Group”).

PRS for Music engages various suppliers including, but not limited to, IT providers, cleaning service providers, contractors and professional service advisers.

Our policies

PRS for Music operates a number of policies to ensure that we are conducting business in an ethical and transparent manner. These include:

PRS for Music’s Values. Our compliance activities, in particular, are anchored in our integrity value.
PRS for Music Code of Conduct
PRS for Music Anti-Bribery and Corruption Policy
PRS for Music Whistleblowing Policy
PRS for Music Grievance Policy
PRS for Music Modern Slavery Policy
Zero tolerance of abuse, assault or other threatening behaviour

Our processes

PRS for Music has a dedicated compliance team, which is focused on ensuring compliance with the Act.

PRS for Music has taken various steps to raise staff awareness of modern slavery in the past year. These include:

Providing company-wide communications on World Anti-Slavery Day on the continuing existence of modern slavery in workplaces and communities, and what can be done to tackle this;
Providing yearly compulsory company-wide compliance training on modern slavery highlighting the relevant PRS for Music policies, the potential warning signs of modern slavery in the workplace, and what staff should do if they have any concerns;
Providing compliance training on modern slavery for new staff; and
Providing guidance to the Group on modern slavery awareness where necessary.

PRS for Music asks its suppliers to provide copies of modern slavery statements. In the absence of such statements, PRS for Music asks its suppliers to provide written assurance stating that they are committed to ensuring that there is no modern slavery or human trafficking in their supply chains or in any part of their business, and that they keep their modern slavery compliance measures under review. These requests are incorporated into the PRS for Music procurement process. A failure to provide a modern slavery statement or equivalent written assurance will lead to the supplier being marked as non-compliant, which will in turn factor into PRS for Music’s decision on whether to work with the supplier.

Further steps

We continuously consider and reflect how we can improve our processes to prevent modern slavery and human trafficking. Over the course of this year, we will:

Review how PRS for Music can enhance its current procurement processes and due diligence when engaging with third-party suppliers to ensure they remain robust.
Continue to review the latest Government issued modern slavery guidance to help ensure PRS for Music implements company-wide measures that help monitor and prevent acts of modern slavery.
Continue to review the policies that have been listed above to help determine whether they still comply with the current law, Government recommendations and best practice.
Continue delivering company-wide yearly training that ensures employees and contractors remain aware of their own modern slavery obligations within the business.
Continue to review the content that is in yearly modern slavery compliance training to ensure it includes the latest best practice and guidance.

Approval for this statement

This statement is made pursuant to Section 54 of the Act and constitutes PRS and PRSfM’s slavery and human trafficking statement for the financial year ending 31 December 2025.

This statement was approved by the PRSfM Board of Directors and the PRS Members' Council on 26 March 2026.

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