Question follow-through · 82362
Firearms: Licensing
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an estimate of the average cost to the public purse of processing an application to renew a shotgun licence.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 15 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 20 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 27 Oct 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
15 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an estimate of the average cost to the public purse of processing an application to renew a shotgun licence.
20 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 Oct 2025
Answer published
On 5 February 2025, increased fees came into effect for firearms licensing applications processed by police forces. This gave effect to a commitment in the Government’s manifesto.A full impact assessment was published alongside the Firearms (Variation of ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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