Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has had recent discussions with the Secretary of State for Business and Trade on the impact of hair relaxers that are labelled as including no-lye when sodium hydroxide is listed in the ingredients on women's health; and if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of banning hair relaxers containing lye.

Ministers regularly engage with other Cabinet colleagues on a range of issues relating to health and social care and other matters. There are currently no plans to make an assessment.