Question follow-through · 43503
Gun Sports: Lead
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of restricting the acquisition, storage, and usage of lead shot on elite shooting athletes.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 2 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 7 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 10 Apr 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
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Recorded timeline
2 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of restricting the acquisition, storage, and usage of lead shot on elite shooting athletes.
7 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Apr 2025
Answer published
The Health and Safety Executive’s (HSE) final Opinion on their restriction proposal for lead in ammunition, informed by information from public consultations as well as independent scientific advice, included consideration of the use of lead shot by athle...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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