Question follow-through · 7640
Clothing: Waste Disposal
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the sixteenth report of session 2017-19 of the Environmental Audit Committee entitled Fixing fashion: clothing consumption and sustainability, HC 1952, published on 1
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 7 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 9 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 15 Oct 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
7 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the sixteenth report of session 2017-19 of the Environmental Audit Committee entitled Fixing fashion: clothing consumption and sustainability, HC 1952, published on 1
9 Oct 2024
Target answer date
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15 Oct 2024
Answer published
No recent assessment has been made of the Environmental Audit Committee’s recommendation for a charge on garments to fund collection and sorting services. However, the Secretary of State has asked his department to convene a taskforce of experts from acro...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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