Disclosure Log

Aesthetics regulation and licensing: council inspections, enforcement and business selection (FOI/8510)

Message from Nottinghamshire County Council - 21 September 2026

Dear **********,

 

 

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 – REQUEST FOR INFORMATION REFERENCE FOI/8510

Thank you for your request for information concerning any local authority campaign, project, initiative or targeted inspection activity relating to businesses providing non-surgical cosmetic or aesthetic treatments.

The information held by Nottinghamshire County Council that falls within the scope of your request is contained within the attached PDF document.

The attached document provides information relating to:

  • Any identified campaign, project, initiative, targeted inspection programme, intelligence-led operation, sector compliance exercise or other organised activity concerning businesses providing non-surgical cosmetic or aesthetic treatments.
  • The purpose, scope and duration of any such activity.
  • The service area responsible.
  • The methodology and criteria used to identify businesses.
  • Relevant inspection procedures, guidance and legislation.
  • Information regarding inspections, advice, enforcement activity and outcomes, where recorded.
  • Details of any intelligence sources, referral routes and partnership working arrangements, where applicable.
  • The current inspection guidance and procedures used when assessing businesses providing non-surgical cosmetic or aesthetic treatments.

Where information is not held, this has been stated within the attached document.

We can confirm that appropriate enquiries were undertaken with the relevant service areas considered most likely to hold information falling within the scope of your request.

Please see the attached PDF for the Council's full response.

We trust this now satisfies your request and that you find this information to be helpful, however if you are unhappy with the way in which your request has been handled, then please email us at [email protected] quoting the reference FOI/8510 and we will be happy to review your request

For future reference, Nottinghamshire County Council regularly publishes previous FOI requests and answers on its website, under Disclosure logs, that may provide details relating to your query. (see link) https://www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/council-and-democracy/freedom-of-information/disclosure-log

Your privacy: we use your personal information such as name and address so that we can comply with our legal obligations to respond to FOI requests.  For further details about the use of information about you, please see the information handling privacy notice on our website at https://www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/media/4323566/informationgovernanceandinformationrightsprivacynotice.pdf

If you are dissatisfied with the handling of your request, you have the right to ask for an internal review.   Requests should be submitted within 40 working days of the date of receipt of the response to your original request and should be addressed to: Complaints and Information Team, Nottinghamshire County Council, County Hall, Loughborough Road, West Bridgford, NOTTINGHAM, NG2 7QP or [email protected].

Please remember to quote the reference number above in any future communications.

If you are not content with the outcome of the internal review, you have the right to apply directly to the Information Commissioner for a decision.  The Information Commissioner can be contacted at: Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, WILMSLOW, SK9 5AF or https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint/foi-and-eir-complaints/.

 

Yours sincerely

Complaints and Information Team

Chief Executives Department

Nottinghamshire County Council

The Council is committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring all personal information is kept confidential and safe. For more details see our general and service specific privacy notices at: https://www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/global-content/privacy

 



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