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Sustainability of the fashion industry inquiry

Inquiry

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.

Reports, special reports and government responses

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18th Special Report - Fixing fashion: clothing consumption and sustainability: Government Response to the Committee’s Sixteenth Report
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16th Report - Fixing fashion: clothing consumption and sustainability
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HC 1952
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Correspondence

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Letter from the Chair to Boohoo Group plc regarding trade union recognition and membership of the Ethical Trading Initiative, 4 June 2019
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Letter from the Boohoo Group plc to the Chair regarding trade union recognition and membership of the Ethical Trading Initiative, 10 June 2019
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Letter from the Chair to Boohoo Group plc regarding trade union recognition and membership of the Ethical Trading Initiative, 2 July 2019
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Oral evidence transcripts

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18 December 2018
Inquiry Sustainability of the fashion industry inquiry
Witnesses Victoria Atkins MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Crime, Safeguarding and Vulnerability and Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Women), Home Office, Dr Thérèse Coffey MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the Environment, Defra, Kelly Tolhurst MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Minister for Small Business, Consumers and Corporate Responsibility, BEIS, Janet Alexander, Director of Individuals and Small Business Compliance, HMRC
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27 November 2018
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Witnesses Mike Barry, Director of Sustainable Business, Marks and Spencer, Paul Lister, Head of Ethical Trade & Environmental Sustainability Team, Primark, Jamie Beck, Head of Supplier Management, Arcadia Group, Leanne Wood, Chief People, Strategy and Corporate Affairs Officer at BurberryCarol Kane, Joint Chief Executive Officer, Boohoo, Nick Beighton, Chief Executive Officer, ASOS, Paul Smith, Head of Product Quality & Supply, Missguided
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13 November 2018
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Witnesses Claire Bergkamp, Sustainability & Innovation Director, Stella McCartney Ltd, Clare Hieatt, Howies and Hiut Denim, Graeme Raeburn, Designer, Phoebe English, Designer, Professor Dilys Williams, Director and Professor of Fashion Design for SustainabilityLivia Firth, Eco-Age, Jane Grice, Waste Not, Want Not, Jenny Holdcroft, Assistant General Secretary, IndustriALL union, Andrea Speranza, TRAID, Lucy Siegle, freelance journalist and writer
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Written evidence

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Chris Carey's Collections Ltd (SFI0038)
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Kurt Geiger (SFI0103)
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Union of Shop Distributive and Allied Workers (SFI0096)
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Other publications

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