Question follow-through · 117963

Firearms: Licensing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 3 March 2026 to Question 114904 on Firearms: Licensing, by what date he will be required to (a) make changes to improve the situation and (b) report back to HMICFRS.

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 4 Mar 2026
Target answer date: 9 Mar 2026
Answer: 19 Mar 2026 · 15 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

4 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 3 March 2026 to Question 114904 on Firearms: Licensing, by what date he will be required to (a) make changes to improve the situation and (b) report back to HMICFRS.
9 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Mar 2026
Answer published
The Chief Constables of the three forces involved in the tripartite firearms licensing arrangement involving Bedfordshire Police, Cambridgeshire Constabulary and Hertfordshire Constabulary received an accelerated cause of concern notice from His Majesty’s...

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