Question follow-through · 31759

Medical Records: Firearms

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.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
21 Feb 2025
Target answer date
4 Mar 2025
Answer
4 Mar 2025 · 11 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 21 Feb 2025

    Question tabled

    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.

  2. 4 Mar 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 4 Mar 2025

    Answer published

    The Statutory Guidance for Chief Officers of Police on firearms licensing sets out clearly the different factors that police forces must consider when deciding whether someone is suitable to have a firearms licence. The Statutory Guidance requires that me...

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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.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

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.