Question follow-through · 93429
Firearms: Licensing
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of increases in the cost of shotgun licences on funding for youth activities.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 21 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 25 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 2 Dec 2025 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
21 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of increases in the cost of shotgun licences on funding for youth activities.
25 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Dec 2025
Answer published
On 5 February 2025, increased fees came into effect to provide full-cost recovery for firearms licensing applications processed by police forces. This was the first increase in fees for 10 years and we intend to undertake more regular reviews in the futur...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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