Firearms: Licensing
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many new firearms licence certificates have been granted in each of the last five years.
Answered by Dame Diana Johnson
The Home Office collects and publishes information annually on the number of new firearms licence certificates that have been granted in the Statistics on firearm and shotgun certificates publication. The latest available data is for the year ending 31 March 2024 and can be accessed at the following link: Statistics on firearm and shotgun certificates: April 2023 to March 2024 - GOV. UK (www.gov.uk).
The number of new firearms licence certificates that have been granted in each of the last five years can be found in data table 1.
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