Question follow-through · 96128
Firearms: Licensing
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many refusals there have been for firearms licenses in the last 12 months.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 2 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 4 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 9 Dec 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
2 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many refusals there have been for firearms licenses in the last 12 months.
4 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Dec 2025
Answer published
The Home Office publishes information annually on the number of firearm and shotgun certificate applications refused in England and Wales in the statistical publication on firearm and shotgun certificates. The latest available data is for the year ending ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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