Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police officers have surrendered firearms licences in the last 12 months; and what data her Department holds on the reasons recorded for those surrenders.

The Home Office collects and publishes information annually on the number of armed police officers in the Police use of firearms statistics. The latest available data is for the year ending 31 March 2024 and can be accessed at the following link:

Police use of firearms statistics: Police use of firearms statistics, April 2023 to March 2024 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

The number of armed police officers and, of those, the number that were operationally deployable can be found in data table 2.