Asked by: Bill Wiggin (Conservative - North Herefordshire)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on the time taken by police forces to issue (a) firearm and (b) shotgun licences.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
We do not collect data on the time taken by police forces to issue firearm and shotgun certificates.
I have written to all Police and Crime Commissioners about the importance of an efficient and effective firearms licensing process in police forces and I continue to receive regular updates on force performance. In addition, force performance is being actively monitored by the National Police Chiefs’ Council’s lead for firearms licensing.
Particular focus is being made on the backlogs in those areas of greatest risk, with a reduced routine reliance being made on the use of temporary permits, as well as a reduction in those whose certificates have expired, who have not been given temporary permits and who remain in possession of their firearms.
Asked by: Alexander Stafford (Conservative - Rother Valley)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many responses her Department has received to its consultation entitled Firearms licensing: a consultation on recommendations for changes made to the Home Office, which closed on 23 August 2023.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
We will be publishing the Government response shortly to the consultation paper ‘Firearms Licensing: a consultation on recommendations for changes made to the Home Office’, which was published by the Home Office on 29 June 2023.
In the Government response, and the Written Ministerial Statement to be made when the response is published, we will provide a detailed account of the number of responses received. The Government response will also set out what action the Government intends to take following the consultation.
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Asked by: Luke Pollard (Labour (Co-op) - Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to launch her Department's consultation on full cost recovery for firearms licencing.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
The Home Office is currently reviewing firearms licensing fees, which were last increased in 2015 and are now considerably below the cost of the service provided.
The key aim of the review is to achieve full cost recovery for the police so that they receive the funding and resources they need to provide a more effective service that supports public safety.
The review is being informed by a Firearms Fees Working Group, chaired by the Home Office and including representation from the police, shooting representative bodies and other Government departments. I expect to consult publicly on proposed new fees during the Autumn and to put the new fees before Parliament shortly thereafter.
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Mar. 15 2024
Source Page: Door supervisors: training, criminality checks, misconductFound: transactions with firearms penaltiess3 – Firearms Act 1968 Art.24 – Firearms (Northern Ireland) Order
Mar. 15 2024
Source Page: Door supervisors: training, criminality checks, misconductFound: transactions with firearms penaltiess3 – Firearms Act 1968 Art.24 – Firearms (Northern Ireland) Order
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