Sustainability of the fashion industry inquiry

Inquiry by the Environmental Audit Committee, 5 June 2018 to 5 June 2018. Its page on the Parliament website.

Reports and responses

• 15th Report - Interim Report on the Sustainability of the Fashion Industry (31 January 2019)
• 16th Report - Fixing fashion: clothing consumption and sustainability (19 February 2019)
• 16th Report - Fixing fashion: clothing consumption and sustainability (Enhanced HTML) (19 February 2019)
• 18th Special Report - Fixing fashion: clothing consumption and sustainability: Government Response to the Committee’s Sixteenth Report (18 June 2019)

Evidence sessions

• 30 October 2018: Dr Mark Sumner, University of Leeds, Stella Claxton, Senior Lecturer, Clothing Sustainability Research Group, Nottingham Trent University, Professor Richard Thompson, University of Plymouth, Alan Wheeler, Textiles Recycling AssociationSarah O’Connor, Financial Times investigative reporter, Kate Elsayed-Ali, Anti Slavery International, Sarah Ditty, Fashion Revolution
• 13 November 2018: 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
• 27 November 2018: 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
• 18 December 2018: 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