Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government when was the last firearms amnesty in the UK.

The National Ballistic Intelligence Service (NABIS) has coordinated several national firearms surrender campaigns removing thousands of potentially lethal items from getting into criminal hands.

Surrender campaigns were held in 2014 and 2017 with the last campaign running between 20 July and 4 August 2019.

The 2019 campaign had two key purposes. Firstly, to remove firearms from criminal availability, and secondly, to allow the public to safely surrender, without prosecution, firearms held illegally or without knowledge of the legislation, providing the opportunity to dispose of a firearm or ammunition by handing it in to the police.