Written Question·Home Office·UIN 31760

Medical Records: Firearms

Tabled: 21 February 2025
Answered: 4 March 2025

Question

Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown

ConservativeNorth Cotswolds

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reason she is not making placing of a marker on the medical notes of firearms certificate holders mandatory for general practitioners.

Answer

Dame Diana Johnson
The Statutory Guidance for Chief Officers of Police on firearms licensing sets out clearly the different factors that police forces must consider when deciding whether someone is suitable to have a firearms licence. The Statutory Guidance requires that me...

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