Question follow-through · 7642
Clothing: Microplastics
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will take steps to require retailers to publish data on microplastics used in their clothing.
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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, if he will take steps to require retailers to publish data on microplastics used in their clothing.
9 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 Oct 2024
Answer published
The Secretary of State has asked his department to convene a Taskforce of experts from across the Government, industry, academia and relevant NGOs. The Taskforce will help to develop a Circular Economy Strategy for England and a series of roadmaps detaili...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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