FOI request (FOIR-826414095)

Tattoo studio numbers - past ten years

Requested Mon 13 April 2026
Responded Tue 12 May 2026

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Response

Q1) Please advise, based on your business rates database, how many tattoo-specific premises or tattoo studios were known to you for each financial year for the past 10 years.

2016/17 - 5

2017/18 - 5

2018/19 - 5

2019/20 - 6 

2020/21 - 6

2021/22 - 7

2022/23 - 7

2023/24 - 7

2024/25 - 6

2025/26 - 6 

Q2a) Please can you advise, based on your Environmental Health records, how many premises were registered with you in order to provide tattooing services or were tattoo studios, during each financial year for the past 10 years under the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982 (LGMPA 1982). Please note that tattooing is considered alongside acupuncture, electrolysis, semi-permanent skin colouring, and piercing to be referred to more broadly as a 'special treatment', which is regulated by the above Act. Year from Premises

1/4/2015 - 1

1/4/2016 - 1

1/4/2017 - 1

1/4/2018 - 1

1/4/2019 - 3

1/4/2020 - 4

1/4/2021 - 5

1/4/2022 - 6

1/4/2026 - 2

1/4/2024 - 3

1/4/2025 - 6

Q2b) Please can you advise, based on your Environmental Health records regarding the above premises, how many individual practitioners were registered with you in order to provide tattooing services or were working within tattoo studios, during each financial year for the past 10 years under the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982 (LGMPA 1982)? Year from Persons

1/4/2015 - 5

1/4/2016 - 5

1/4/2017 - 4

1/4/2018 - 1

1/4/2019 - 4

1/4/2020 - 6

1/4/2021 - 20

1/4/2022 - 10

1/4/2026 - 12

1/4/2024 - 5

1/4/2025 - 8