Thank you for that question, and for your welcome for the nicotine register particularly. But with regard to the special procedures, I know that during the public health White Paper consultation, and through the previous Assembly scrutiny, many Members and Assembly Members suggested a list of special procedures that should be extended to include things such as those you suggest, like dermal fillers, colonic irrigation and tattoo removal, and all body modification procedures, such as tongue splitting, scarification and branding. I know these are all things that were explored by the committee at the last Assembly. These haven’t been included within the definition of special measures within the Bill, but as I say, the Bill does allow Ministers to amend via regulations the list of special procedures in due course. And I’m sure that we will revisit some of the eye-watering discussions you had in committee at the last stage.

In order to be added to the list though, Welsh Ministers must consider that the procedure is performed for either aesthetic or therapeutic purposes, and that the performance of the procedure is capable of causing harm to human health. Those would be the boundaries within which we could take these decisions under the Bill. And the amendment might add to or remove a type of description of a procedure from the list, or it might vary a description that is already contained within the list as well. The reason for that is to allow us to remain flexible and be able to respond to those changing practices, which you referred to, because this particular field is one that moves very quickly, and trends happen very quickly and change quickly too.