Question follow-through · 84906
Crossbows: Sales
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of setting up a licensing regime for the sale of crossbows.
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 24 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 28 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 5 Nov 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
24 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of setting up a licensing regime for the sale of crossbows.
28 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Nov 2025
Answer published
The Government is actively considering the introduction of further controls around crossbows. This follows a call for evidence on strengthening controls on crossbows on public safety grounds which ran from 14 February to 9 April 2024.The call for evidence...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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