Question follow-through · 66600
Offensive Weapons: Regulation
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has plans to review the regulation of (a) hand-held catapults and (b) slingshots with a wrist-brace attachment.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 10 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 14 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 18 Jul 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has plans to review the regulation of (a) hand-held catapults and (b) slingshots with a wrist-brace attachment.
14 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Jul 2025
Answer published
I have asked Home Office officials to keep the law in this area under review. There are existing powers available for the police to tackle the misuse of catapults for anti-social behaviour or against people or property.I understand that there is a particu...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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