Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, for each police force area in the United Kingdom, how many people were (1) arrested, (2) charged, (3) cautioned, and (4) convicted, for failing adequately to secure their firearms in (a) 2015, and (b) 2016.

The Home Office does not hold the information requested centrally.

The Home Office collects data on the number of arrests by each police force in England and Wales at offence group level (e.g. violence against the person, possession of weapons offences). However, the data cannot be broken down to identify the specific offence under which each arrest was made.

Data on charges are the responsibility of the Crown Prosecution Service.

Data on cautions and convictions are the responsibility of the Ministry of Justice. They have informed us they do not hold the information requested centrally.