Written Question·Home Office·UIN 23518

Tattooing: Young People

Tabled: 13 January 2025
Answered: 21 January 2025

Question

Nick Timothy

Conservative — West Suffolk

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to reduce the legal age for tattoos to 16 under the Tattooing of Minors Act 1969.

Answer

Dame Diana Johnson
The Home Office keeps all such matters under review.