Question follow-through · 110566
Firearms: Licensing
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of proposals to merge Section 1 and Section 2 firearms licensing on (a) employment and (b) economic activity in rural communities, including impact
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 3 Feb 2026
- Target answer date
- 5 Feb 2026
- Answer
- 23 Feb 2026 · 20 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
3 Feb 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of proposals to merge Section 1 and Section 2 firearms licensing on (a) employment and (b) economic activity in rural communities, including impact
5 Feb 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Feb 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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