Question follow-through · 80948

Firearms: Licensing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her Department's timetable is for publishing its planned consultation on bringing the licensing of shotguns under Section 2 of the Firearms Act 1968 in line with the licensing requirements under

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 10 Oct 2025
Target answer date: 14 Oct 2025
Answer: 20 Oct 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

10 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her Department's timetable is for publishing its planned consultation on bringing the licensing of shotguns under Section 2 of the Firearms Act 1968 in line with the licensing requirements under
14 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 Oct 2025
Answer published
The Government response to the 2023 firearms licensing consultation, published on 13 February this year, included a commitment to having a public consultation on strengthening the licensing controls on shotguns, to bring them more into line with the contr...

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