Written Question·Home Office·UIN 88636

Firearms: Licensing

Tabled: 10 November 2025
Answered: 20 November 2025

Question

Stuart Andrew

ConservativeDaventry

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department plans to (a) merge and (b) align the (i) Section 1 (firearms) and (ii) Section 2 (shotgun) licensing systems in the Firearms Act 1968.

Answer

Sarah Jones
We will be undertaking a public consultation later this year on the greater alignment of the controls on shotguns with other firearms.The Government response to the 2023 firearms licensing consultation, published on 13 February this year, included a commi...

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