Question follow-through · 27584

Firearms: Licensing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has had recent discussions with Police and Crime Commissioners in (a) Leicestershire and (b) England on the potential impact of changes to the cost of firearms licenses on the police.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 30 Jan 2025
Target answer date: 3 Feb 2025
Answer: 7 Feb 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

30 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has had recent discussions with Police and Crime Commissioners in (a) Leicestershire and (b) England on the potential impact of changes to the cost of firearms licenses on the police.
3 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 Feb 2025
Answer published
On 15 January 2025, the Government laid a statutory instrument before Parliament that will increase fees charged by police forces to provide full-cost recovery for firearms licensing applications, in line with the Government’s manifesto commitment on fire...

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