questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will (a) make an assessment of the performance of police forces in issuing firearms and shotgun licences and (b) centralise the responsibility for issuing those licences with the police force that performs the best against the metrics used for that assessment.
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