Question follow-through · 46841
Personal Care Services: Licensing
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, If he would make an assessment of the potential merits of a licensing scheme for (a) hairdressers and (b) barbers.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 22 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 24 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 7 May 2025 · 15 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
22 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, If he would make an assessment of the potential merits of a licensing scheme for (a) hairdressers and (b) barbers.
24 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 May 2025
Answer published
Hairdressing salons and barbers, like other employers, are subject to normal business regulations such as health and safety requirements, employer and public liability insurance. The Hairdressers Registration Act of 1964 already provides for a UK register...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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