Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 3:25 pm on 8 November 2016.
Your statement refers to the creation in the Bill of a mandatory licensing system for practitioners carrying out special procedures—acupuncture, body piercing, electrolysis and tattooing—helping to protect people and so on. But when I wrote to you regarding the hair industry, you replied, on 27 October, that the regulation of hairdressing will not be included in the Public Health (Wales) Bill at introduction into the Assembly, scheduled for 7 November. Given that the hair industry in Germany must be registered and have a master craftsperson employed, but in the UK anyone can set up, and they don’t have to be qualified, trained or registered, despite providing dangerous procedures, including the use of chemicals on skin and hair, and given that the Bill as it stands does include beauty and procedures such as Botox and, I believe, dermal fillers, will you now give consideration, post introduction of the Bill, to the concerns raised by the industry in this respect?