Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 11 January 2021 to Question 134186 on Airguns: Regulation, when she plans to publish the responses to the initial consultation on airgun registration that was held in 2017.

The Government received over 50,000 responses to the air weapons review, which commenced in December 2017. A summary of the responses to the review was included in the firearms safety consultation, published on 24 November 2020. This consultation sets out proposals for new measures in relation to air weapons. The firearms safety consultation will close on 16 February, after which the Government will publish its response, including in relation to air weapons controls.