Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to improve the identification and recording of NHS treatments for complications arising from cosmetic or other elective surgery undertaken overseas; and when they expect to establish a baseline against which the effectiveness of public guidance on the risks of such procedures can be evaluated.

The Government takes the issues arising from medical tourism very seriously and we urge anyone considering medical procedures abroad to review our travel advice and the relevant guidance from the National Health Service and other professional bodies. We are also exploring ways to improve our understanding of the scale of the cost to the NHS, but at present, the data is not available to establish the baseline proposed.