Select committee: Women and Equalities Committee
Recommendation 17
11th Report – Cosmetic procedures
Published 18 Feb 2026
Addressed to Government Equalities Office
Women and Equalities Committee Health impacts of breast implants and other cosmetic procedures All items in this report Report on parliament.uk ↗ Inquiry on parliament.uk ↗
Recommendation (the committee's words)
The Government should accelerate regulatory action. Procedures that are deemed high risk such as liquid BBLs and liquid breast augmentations, which have already been shown to pose a serious threat to patient safety, should be restricted to appropriately qualified medical professionals immediately. Given the lack of appetite among medical professionals to carry out these procedures, this will act as a de facto ban in all but the 46 most essential cases. A licensing system for ‘green’ and ‘amber’ non- surgical cosmetic procedures should be introduced within this Parliament. (Recommendation, Paragraph 70)
From: Women and Equalities Committee, 11th Report – Cosmetic procedures (HC 869), 18 February 2026
Government response
No government response linked yet: deadline 18 April 2026, 197 days ago.