Written Question·Home Office·UIN 14790

Firearms: Licensing

Tabled: 18 November 2024
Answered: 26 November 2024

Question

Richard Tice

Reform UKBoston and Skegness

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police officers have surrendered firearms licences in the last 12 months; and what data her Department holds on the reasons recorded for those surrenders.

Answer

Dame Diana Johnson
The Home Office collects and publishes information annually on the number of armed police officers in the Police use of firearms statistics. The latest available data is for the year ending 31 March 2024 and can be accessed at the following link:Police us...

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