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The files were published as UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet begins a long-awaited and controversial trip to Xinjiang.
The company is one of the Olympics’ biggest backers with a reported $500 million sponsorship deal running until 2028.
The independent report said that measures used to reduce the Uyghur birth rate included forced sterilisation, birth control and abortion.
The 160-page report by Amnesty International uses the testimony of former detainees to document the abuses.
Beijing said in a statement the move by Dominic Raab was ‘based on nothing but lies and disinformation’.
The United States says 11 companies are implicated in human rights abuses in China.
Beijing regularly accuses what it calls exiled Uighur separatist groups such as the East Turkestan Islamic Movement of orchestrating attacks in the region.
At least 200 people have been killed in the Xinjiang region in the last year.
37 civilians and 59 “terrorists” were killed in the incident last week in Xinjiang.
Beijing has warned of growing religious extremism in the western region of Xinjiang.
Police shot 10 rioters after nine of their colleagues were allegedly killed in the clashes.
China has authorised new legislature to define and combat terrorism – which is closer in line to international practises – as violent outbreaks continue in the country’s western region.