Question follow-through · 28449
Firearms: Licensing
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has used powers under section 44 of the Police Act 1996 to require Chief Constables to provide information on the time taken by firearms licensing departments to process (a) grants and (b)
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 4 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 10 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 10 Feb 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
4 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has used powers under section 44 of the Police Act 1996 to require Chief Constables to provide information on the time taken by firearms licensing departments to process (a) grants and (b)
10 Feb 2025
Target answer date
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10 Feb 2025
Answer published
The issuing of firearms certificates and the efficiency of police forces is a matter for individual Chief Constables, who are held to account by Police and Crime Commissioners.However, the performance of forces in this space is being actively monitored by...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Firearms: Licensing
21 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether it is her policy that firearms certificate holders should have a marker placed on their medical notes.
Medical Records: Firearms
21 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department holds information on the proportion of general practitioners who place medical markers on the medical notes of patients who are firearms certificate holders.
Medical Records: Firearms
21 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reason she is not making placing of a marker on the medical notes of firearms certificate holders mandatory for general practitioners.
Firearms: Licensing
25 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many times the Home Office Firearms Fees Working Group met in 2022 and 2023; what conclusions it reached on firearms licensing fees; and if she will publish its report.
Firearms: Licensing
13 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what data on the performance of firearms licensing departments her Department has received in each of the last three years.