Question follow-through · 15122
Police: Firearms
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many authorised firearms officers were employed by each police force in England and Wales in each of the last 10 years.
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 1 Jul 2026
- Target answer date
- 6 Jul 2026
- Answer
- 6 Aug 2026 · 36 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
1 Jul 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many authorised firearms officers were employed by each police force in England and Wales in each of the last 10 years.
6 Jul 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
6 Aug 2026
Answer published
The Home Office publishes annual statistics on the total number of armed officers and operationally deployable armed officers (which excludes absences) in England and Wales in the “Police use of firearms statistics” publication. The latest data, covering ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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