Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people responded to her Department's consultation on air weapon licensing of 1 December 2017 to 6 February 2018 raising concerns about the shooting of animals such as cats by such weapons.

The Government received over 50,000 representations from members of the public about the review of the regulation of air weapons, a significant proportion of which were concerned about the use of these weapons against animals such as cats. We are considering the representations that we received and will publish our findings in due course.