Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 98547
Breasts: Plastic Surgery
Tabled: 9 December 2025
Answered: 29 December 2025
Question
Sarah Owen
Labour — Luton North
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) breast implants and (b) PIP breast implants have ruptured and had to be removed in the last 10 years; and how many of those ruptured implants were not listed on the breast and cosmetic
Answer
Dr Zubir AhmedThe Breast and Cosmetic Implant Registry (BCIR), set up in 2016, collects all implant data, and explant data where possible.Practically, it is always difficult and often impossible to identify a model and product code on an explant. If explanted devices, ...
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