Question follow-through · 51709
Medical Records: Firearms
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to regulate the fees charged by GPs to applicants for a medical review for a firearms licensing application.
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 12 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 14 May 2025
- Answer
- 20 May 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
12 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to regulate the fees charged by GPs to applicants for a medical review for a firearms licensing application.
14 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 May 2025
Answer published
Medical checks are an important part of the firearms licensing process and help to ensure that those in possession of firearms licences do not present a threat to themselves or others.Since November 2021, applicants have been required to provide medical i...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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