Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 8 September 2017 to Question 6341, when she expects to make a decision on fees for firearm and shotgun licences administered by the police.

Fees for firearm and shotgun licences issued by the police remain under review. These were last increased in 2015 to enable police forces to achieve full cost recovery when a new online licensing system becomes operational. Work is continuing on this, including whether improvements can be made to the existing IT system. We are not proposing to make changes to the fees until further progress has been made on this.