Question follow-through · 18269
Medical Records: Firearms
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to require General Practitioners to place a marker on the medical notes of firearms certificate holders.
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 5 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 9 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 13 Dec 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
5 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to require General Practitioners to place a marker on the medical notes of firearms certificate holders.
9 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 Dec 2024
Answer published
It is a requirement that all applicants for a firearms licence must provide relevant medical information to the police with their application, and this is supported by a new digital firearms marker which is placed on the patient/licence holder’s medical r...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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