Question follow-through · 45079
Firearms: West Midlands
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many non-air firearms-related offences were recorded in (a) Birmingham, (b) the West Midlands and (c) England in each of the last 15 years.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 8 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 22 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 28 Apr 2025 · 20 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
8 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many non-air firearms-related offences were recorded in (a) Birmingham, (b) the West Midlands and (c) England in each of the last 15 years.
22 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Apr 2025
Answer published
The Home Office collects and publishes official statistics on offences involving firearms recorded by the police in England and Wales at the Police Force Area level.These data, by offence group and type of weapon, are published in Open Data Tables, availa...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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