Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether he plans to establish a clinical audit database for cosmetic surgery as recommended by Professor Sir Bruce Keogh's Review of the regulation of cosmetic interventions, published in April 2013.

The Department commissioned the Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) to set up a cosmetic surgery inter-specialty committee to take forward a number of recommendations made by Professor Sir Bruce Keogh’s review. As part of their work, the RCS committee produced recommendations for a future national audit of cosmetic surgical practice in May 2016, which remain under consideration by the Department.