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Offensive Weapons: Crime

Asked by James McMurdockIndependentHome OfficeTabled Answered 19 November 2025UIN 89868

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 18 July 2025 to Question 66600 on Slingshots: Regulation, what information her Department holds on the number of offences committed with hand-held catapults and slingshots ag

Answered by Sarah Jones

The Home Office does not hold information on the number of police recorded offences that involved hand-held catapults or slingshots.

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