questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of delays in the approval of firearm and shotgun licenses on people for whom a license is essential to their livelihood.
answerText: We do not collect data on the time taken by police forces to issue firearm and shotgun certificates.The issue of how individual forces’ firearms licensing departments deal with applications for firearms certificates is an operational matter for the Chief ...
heading: Firearms: Licensing