Response 3989346

Response to request for information

Reference

3989346

Response date

24 April 2026

Request

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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)

Response

1. We do not hold a record of the type of business operated at each hereditament on our Business Rates database. However, the database does record the property description provided by the Valuation Office Agency (VOA). Having checked our database, we can confirm that the number of properties assigned the VOA property description "Tattoo parlour and premises" for each financial year over the past 10 years is as follows:
   • 2016/17 – 1
   • 2017/18 – 0
   • 2018/19 – 0
   • 2019/20 – 0
   • 2020/21 – 1
   • 2021/22 – 1
   • 2022/23 – 1
   • 2023/24 – 1
   • 2024/25 – 1
   • 2025/26 – 1 

Please note that these figures only reflect properties with this specific VOA description and may not include all tattoo premises or studios. 

Our response to Question 2 and 3