§ Ann ClwydTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many cosmetic surgery operations performed on the NHS were to rectify damage resulting from cosmetic surgery procedures performed by the private sector in the last year for which figures are available. [23006]
§ Mr. MilburnWe do not hold data centrally. A survey carried out in 1995 by the British Association of Plastic Surgeons concluded that there were only a very small number of occasions when National Health Service hospitals had to deal with patients presenting with complications arising from private cosmetic surgery.