Question follow-through · 104780

Firearms: Licensing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to announce the (a) scope and (b) timetable of the forthcoming consultation on proposals to merge shotgun and firearms licensing regimes.

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 12 Jan 2026
Target answer date: 14 Jan 2026
Answer: 20 Jan 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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12 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to announce the (a) scope and (b) timetable of the forthcoming consultation on proposals to merge shotgun and firearms licensing regimes.
14 Jan 2026
Target answer date
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20 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...

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