Question follow-through · 87522
Police: Firearms
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of police officers are qualitied to use firearms in each year since 2018.
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 3 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 5 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 11 Nov 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
3 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of police officers are qualitied to use firearms in each year since 2018.
5 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Nov 2025
Answer published
The Home Office collects and publishes information annually on the number of armed officers, and the proportion of armed officers relative to the total number of police officers, in the statistical publication on the police use of firearms.The latest avai...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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