Question follow-through · 117629
Offensive Weapons: Sales
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will introduce age restrictions of 18 plus for the purchasing of catapults and slingshots.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 3 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 5 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 12 Mar 2026 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
3 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will introduce age restrictions of 18 plus for the purchasing of catapults and slingshots.
5 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Mar 2026
Answer published
The Government shares concerns over the misuse of catapults, whether against people, property or wildlife.There is existing legislation relating to the carrying and use of offensive weapons, Anti-Social Behaviour and wildlife crime; however, the Governmen...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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