Question follow-through · 102823
Firearms: Licensing
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of merging (i) shotgun and (ii) rifle licensing systems will have on constituents in South Suffolk.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 5 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 7 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 13 Jan 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
5 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of merging (i) shotgun and (ii) rifle licensing systems will have on constituents in South Suffolk.
7 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 Jan 2026
Answer published
The Government response to the 2023 firearms licensing consultation, published on 13 February 2025, included a commitment to having a public consultation on strengthening the licensing controls on shotguns to bring them more into line with the controls on...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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