{"id":160790,"date":"2019-02-01T23:38:07","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T23:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/in-depth-whats-weve-learned-from-mps-interim-report-on-the-sustainability-of-the-uk-fashion-industry\/"},"modified":"2021-08-12T13:54:43","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T13:54:43","slug":"in-depth-whats-weve-learned-from-mps-interim-report-on-the-sustainability-of-the-uk-fashion-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/in-depth-whats-weve-learned-from-mps-interim-report-on-the-sustainability-of-the-uk-fashion-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"In-depth: what's we've learned from MPs' interim report on the sustainability of the UK fashion industry"},"content":{"rendered":"
Last autumn UK parliament\u2019s Environmental Audit Committee wrote to 16 of fashion\u2019s biggest and most influential players<\/strong> requesting they provide evidence of their sustainability and labour market practices. The retailers in question were told that they may also be summoned to appear in front of MPs to account for themselves and, while responses were not mandatory, anyone refusing to comply risked being publicly named and shamed. They were also informed that the information they provided would be made public. Gulp\u2026<\/p>\n The move was part of an ongoing inquiry into UK fashion, led by Mary Creagh, MP,<\/strong> who was true to her word. One retailer failed to respond to written requests for information, Kurt Geiger, and was called out in an interim report published yesterday. The footwear retailer was summarily dumped to the bottom of a league table ranking fashion businesses on their engagement with these key issues (of course we don\u2019t know if that\u2019s fair representation of its efforts but since the brand didn\u2019t provide any evidence there is no way of knowing).<\/p>\n A number of big-name brands from ASOS to Burberry, Arcadia to Boohoo, Primark and Marks & Spencer had indeed been called to account for their practices in front of MPs last November<\/strong>. Missguided too was invited to attend but CEO Nitin Passi sent hishead of product quality & supply Paul Smith instead of accepting the invitation personally.<\/p>\n