Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications for a firearms license have been made in England and Wales in each of the last ten years.

The Home Office publishes data on firearm and shotgun certificates in England and Wales, including the number of firearm licence applications made in the last ten years. The latest data cover the period April 2021 to March 2022, and are available here: Firearm certificates in England and Wales statistics - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Data on the number of firearm licence applications by year are published in table 1 of the accompanying data tables.