Ms Claire Downey:

The first thing with textiles is that we need to turn off the tap. We have a very high consumption level and we need to tackle that. There is good work on behavioural insights which we hope to add to through the communications excellence programme, to understand what is going on, why consumption levels are so high and how we can intervene to try to address that. That is the first problem, which flows through to every subsequent challenge that handling those consumer textiles involves. We know from the research that we are passing on around 170,000 tonnes of textiles in post-consumer waste. A significant portion of that is going into the bin. We do not know exactly what that is. Much more data is required in this area. We are exporting around 35,000 tonnes, which typically goes for reuse, depending on how it is handled in the receiving market. We are reusing about 10,000 tonnes out of the 170,000, so that stays in the country and is resold. That is the best estimate but the data needs to be improved, as I said. The more that we can do to support retaining textiles in the country-----