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Select committee: Environmental Audit Committee

Sustainability of the fashion industry inquiry

Closed Opened 5 Jun 2018 Closed 5 Jun 2018

Environmental Audit Committee Inquiry on parliament.uk ↗

Inquiry scope (the committee's words)
The Environmental Audit Committee investigates the social and environmental impact of disposable ‘fast fashion’ and the wider clothing industry. The inquiry examines the carbon, resource use and water footprint of clothing throughout its lifecycle. It will look at how clothes can be recycled, and waste and pollution reduced.

Where it stands

The inquiry is closed, opened 5 June 2018.

The committee has published 3 reports, most recently 16th Report - Fixing fashion: clothing consumption and sustainability (Enhanced HTML) on 19 February 2019.

The government's response to each report

16th Report - Fixing fashion: clothing consumption and sustainability (Enhanced HTML)

No government response is linked to this report.

16th Report - Fixing fashion: clothing consumption and sustainability

No government response is linked to this report.

15th Report - Interim Report on the Sustainability of the Fashion Industry

No government response is linked to this report.

Reports

All reports

Evidence

  • 4 oral evidence sessionsLatest 18 December 2018
All evidence

Recent activity

Recommendations and conclusions 0 shown

No recommendations or conclusions are indexed for this inquiry yet.

Reports

3 reports

Oral evidence sessions

4 sessions

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Date Session and witnesses Source
18 Dec 2018
Oral evidence session
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27 Nov 2018
Oral evidence session
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13 Nov 2018
Oral evidence session
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30 Oct 2018
Oral evidence session
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Correspondence

15 letters

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PublishedDirectionLetter
19 Jul 2019 To committee Letter from Boohoo Group plc to the Chair regarding trade union recognition and membership of the Ethical Trading Initiative, 8 July 2019
19 Jul 2019 To committee Letter from the Chair to Boohoo Group plc regarding trade union recognition and membership of the Ethical Trading Initiative, 2 July 2019
19 Jul 2019 To committee Letter from the Boohoo Group plc to the Chair regarding trade union recognition and membership of the Ethical Trading Initiative, 10 June 2019
19 Jul 2019 To committee Letter from the Chair to Boohoo Group plc regarding trade union recognition and membership of the Ethical Trading Initiative, 4 June 2019
24 Apr 2019 To committee Letter from the Minister for Crime, Safeguarding and Vulnerability to the Chair on sustainable fashion, 5 April 2019
25 Jan 2019 To committee Letter from HM Revenue & Customs to the Chair on sustainability of the fashion industry, 14 January 2019
15 Jan 2019 To committee Letter from Sir Peter Soulsby to the Chair on sustainability in the fashion industry, 21 December 2018
21 Dec 2018 To committee Letter from the Chair to David Liddington on Modern slavery in UK public sector supply chains, 18 December 2018
29 Nov 2018 To committee Letter from Nitin Passi, Founder and CEO, Missguided to the Chair, 23 November 2018
23 Nov 2018 To committee Letter from the Chair to Nitin Passi, CEO and Founder, Missguided, 22 November 2018
9 Nov 2018 To committee Letter from the Chair to Missguided on the environmental impact of the fashion industry, 2 November 2018
9 Nov 2018 To committee Letter from the Chair to Boohoo/PrettyLittleThing on the environmental impact of the fashion industry, 2 November 2018
9 Nov 2018 To committee Letter from the Chair to ASOS on the environmental impact of the fashion industry, 2 November 2018
9 Nov 2018 To committee Letter from the Chair to Amazon UK on the environmental impact of the fashion industry, 2 November 2018
5 Oct 2018 To committee Letter from the Chair to retailers on the environmental impact of the fashion industry, 5 October 2018