Question follow-through · 30492
Firearms: Licensing
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to monitor the efficiency of firearms licensing authorities.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 10 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 12 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 18 Feb 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to monitor the efficiency of firearms licensing authorities.
12 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Feb 2025
Answer published
The Firearms Act 1968 gives responsibility for the issuing of firearms licences to Chief Officers of Police.Since November 2021, however, the Statutory Guidance issued by the Secretary of State requires forces to make certain checks on the suitability of ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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