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Select Committee
Anti-slavery International
 MSA0076 - Modern Slavery Act 2015

Written Evidence May. 14 2024

Inquiry: Modern Slavery Act 2015
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Modern Slavery Act 2015 Committee

Found: the environment and provide for effective access to justice and remedy for victims.

Scottish Government Publication (FOI/EIR release)
Environment and Forestry Directorate

Oct. 09 2023

Source Page: Lorna Slater MSP’s ministerial engagements relating to Circular Economy: EIR release
Document: Annex C - 202300359847 (PDF)

Found: around ONS classification and transition, Textiles and Local Authority connections.

Non-Departmental Publication (Open consultation)
Ofqual

Dec. 04 2023

Source Page: Draft sector Subject Area 6 title change​
Document: DRAFT non-statutory guidance on assigning Sector Subject Areas (PDF)

Found: products, graphic products, resistant materials technology, systems and control, textiles technology

Scottish Government Publication (Statistics)
Chief Economist Directorate

Dec. 06 2023

Source Page: Growth sector statistics
Document: Growth sector statistics database (Excel)

Found: Fashion and Textiles 6. DesignPerformance 7.

Departmental Publication (Transparency)
Department for Education

Feb. 13 2024

Source Page: Qualifications attracting high value courses premium
Document: (ODS)

Found: to Higher Education 40013005 Access to HE Diploma (Clothing and Textiles Manufacturing) Skills and Education

Scottish Parliament Debate - Main Chamber
Circular Economy (Scotland) Bill: Stage 3 - Tue 25 Jun 2024

Mentions:
1: Boyack, Sarah (Lab - Lothian) Reduction of“construction materials, steel, plastics and textiles”is good not only for our waste economy - Speech Link
2: Golden, Maurice (Con - North East Scotland) Clearly, there is action to be taken there.My favourite sector is perhaps textiles, because it is very - Speech Link
3: Martin, Gillian (SNP - Aberdeenshire East) I do not think that people realise how polluting fast fashion is, including how much from it gets into - Speech Link
4: Simpson, Graham (Con - Central Scotland) For example, small electrical goods, textiles, furniture and even bikes that are in good working order - Speech Link

Scottish Government Publication (Research and analysis)
Environment and Forestry Directorate

Jan. 31 2024

Source Page: The Environment Strategy for Scotland. Delivering the Environment Strategy Outcome on Scotland's Global Footprint: Evidence base & Policy Levers
Document: The Environment Strategy for Scotland - Delivering the Environment Strategy Outcome on Scotland's Global Footprint: Evidence base and Policy levers (PDF)

Found: use environmentally lighter ingredients; and impacts of, and alternatives to, fast fashion

Written Question
Microplastics: Textiles
Tuesday 13th June 2023

Asked by: Alberto Costa (Conservative - South Leicestershire)

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department plans to take to limit microplastic pollution caused by textiles.

Answered by Rebecca Pow - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)

The Plan for Water outlined our position that we will expect industry to develop low cost, effective microfibre filters on washing machine and encourage their effective use. With the plan being published only just last month, we are now considering the best actions for its implementation. As a first step, we will look to manufacturers to reduce costs and to provide appropriate evidence of the value of microfibre filters to persuade consumers to invest in them and use them correctly.

Defra funds Textiles 2030, a voluntary initiative with over 110 signatories from the fashion manufacturing industry covering 62% by sales of the UK clothing market. Signatories are committed to circular economy principles such as agreeing good design principles so that their products are durable and recyclable.

Our landmark Environment Act 2021 also provides general powers on design standards and requiring information on the resource efficiency of products. We are, therefore, exploring the best mix of policy measures to tackle the environmental impact of textiles.

Defra supports a range of research including the UK Water Industry Research project (performed by UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology) which reported in April 2022 that wastewater treatment plants remove 99% of microplastics by number and 99.5% by mass. The Water Industry National Environment Programme (WINEP) includes over £7.39 million of commitment from the water industry to further research microplastics removal through wastewater treatment processes to sludge, which may be a source of microplastics to final effluent discharges.

Technical experts from the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas) have been leading the Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment to develop a new indicator for microlitter (including microplastics) in seafloor sediments. This will help us to track progress in reducing plastics in the environment at a regional scale.

Deposited Papers

Feb. 21 2008

Source Page: Creative Britain: new talents for the new economy. 81 p.
Document: DEP2008-0521.pdf (PDF)

Found: And you can sense it in our music, ˜lm, fashion and architecture.

Departmental Publication (Transparency)
Department for Education

Feb. 13 2024

Source Page: Qualifications attracting high value courses premium
Document: (ODS)

Found: Technology: Product Design (Textiles) AQA Education Level 3 Manufacturing technologies GCE A Level 50025831