Question follow-through · 95232

Firearms: Licensing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans her Department has to further consult stakeholders on potential changes to the firearms licensing system.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 27 Nov 2025
Target answer date: 1 Dec 2025
Answer: 4 Dec 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

27 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans her Department has to further consult stakeholders on potential changes to the firearms licensing system.
1 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Dec 2025
Answer published
The Government is committed to undertaking a public consultation on whether to strengthen the controls on shotguns, including possible closer alignment with the controls on other firearms. This was set out in the Government response to the 2023 firearms l...

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