Question follow-through · 77506
Firearms: Licensing
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take steps to reduce the cost of the firearms licence application fee.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 16 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 13 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 13 Oct 2025 · 27 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
16 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take steps to reduce the cost of the firearms licence application fee.
13 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 Oct 2025
Answer published
Increased firearms licensing fees were introduced on 5 February 2025, enabling full cost recovery for police forces and fulfilling a manifesto commitment.Firearms licensing fees were last updated in 2015 and had fallen significantly below the cost of deli...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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