Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people aged (a) 14 to 16 and (b) 16 to 18 hold gun licences.

The Home Office publishes data on firearm and shotgun certificates in England and Wales by age group in the annual ‘Firearm and shotgun certificates, England and Wales’ National Statistics. The latest data cover the period April 2020 to March 2021, and are available here: Firearm certificates in England and Wales statistics - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Data on the number of firearm and shotgun certificate holders by age group are published in table 14 of the accompanying data tables. Data are published using the age groups ‘aged 13 and under’, ‘age 14 to 17’, ‘age 18 to 34’, ‘age 35 to 49’, ‘age 50 to 64’ and ‘age 65 and over’.