Question follow-through · 88488
Tattooing: Vetting
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of requiring Disclosure and Barring Service checks for tattoo artists as part of the local authority licensing process.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 5 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 17 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 24 Nov 2025 · 19 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
5 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of requiring Disclosure and Barring Service checks for tattoo artists as part of the local authority licensing process.
17 Nov 2025
Target answer date
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24 Nov 2025
Answer published
No assessment has been made by the Department of the potential merits of requiring Disclosure and Barring Service checks for tattoo artists as part of existing local authority registration and licensing processes. On 7 August we announced our plans to int...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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