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Women and Equalities Committee

9 September 2026

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The Chair opens the evidence session, witnesses explain their roles, and MPs probe how current regulation and government delays on high‑risk cosmetic procedures affect patient safety, including early discussion of patient harm, clandestine practice and potential bans on unqualified providers.

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Session opening, current regulation and immediate safety concerns

11:00

Opening, witness roles and initial regulation concerns

11:00

Committee opening and witness introductions

11:00

Government delay and rise of unregulated surgery

12:11

Patient harm, clandestine practice and calls for bans

14:48

Complaint trends, Alice’s Law and regulatory confidence

14:48

Prevalence and severity of complications

18:55

Clandestine settings and patient coercion

21:01

Government consultation and calls for immediate ban

25:04

Botulism incident, procedure records and reconstructive exceptions

27:10

Botulism outbreak, central records and enforcement gaps

27:10

Scope of bans and reconstructive exceptions

29:40

Cosmetic tourism and systemic regulatory failures

31:11

Cosmetic tourism — risks, NHS burden and awareness gaps

31:11

Cosmetic tourism trends, pricing and risky procedures

31:11

Preventable overseas complications and NHS data gaps

34:17

Government public awareness and international cooperation

49:57

Regulatory failures — Keogh review, GMC powers and legal gaps

37:59

Keogh review, regulatory inertia and misogyny

37:59

GMC powers, titles and risk of underground market

41:41

Digital drivers, future products and legislative next steps

44:26

Social media influence and emerging cosmetic products

44:26

Social media, under‑18s and cosmetic normalisation

44:26

Injectables, peptides and future‑proof regulation

47:50

Legislative consultation priorities, coordinated enforcement and risks of inaction

52:49

Consultation priorities, taskforce proposal and enforcement

52:49

Risks of inaction and committee closure

56:02

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Women and Equalities Committee

9 September 2026

Women and Equalities Committee Wed, 9 Sept 2026 Actual start 14:15 House of Commons

11:00 - 11:20

Speaker 1

Good morning and welcome to the Women and Equalities Committee for our inquiry on cosmetic procedures. And we have two witnesses today, Ashton Collins and Nora Nugent. And I wonder if you would mind just before we get started each giving us a brief introduction. Ashton, if we could start with you?

11:20 - 11:42

Speaker 5

Yes, of course. My name is Ashton Collins and I'm one of the directors of an organisation called Save Face, which is a Professional Standards Authority accredited register for healthcare professionals who provide treatments like fillers and Botox. And we take each of those practitioners and their clinics through a 116-point assessment process to verify that they are safe and appropriate to provide these treatments.

11:42 - 11:44

Speaker 2

Thank you. Nora.

11:44 - 12:02

Speaker 4

I'm Nora Nugent. I'm a consultant plastic surgeon based in Tunbridge Wells. I'm the current president of BAAPS, the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons. And I have a reconstructive and aesthetic background, but I'm currently in full-time private practice focusing on aesthetic surgery.

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