Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Senior Coroner’s Prevention of Future Deaths Report following the Plymouth mass shooting, whether she plans to amend guidance to licensing staff on allegations about the suitability of the applicant to hold a firearms licence, whether yet proven or not.

We are carefully considering all of the recommendations that the Senior Coroner for Plymouth, Torbay and South Devon made in his Prevention of Future Deaths Reports to the Home Secretary, following the Inquest into the shootings that took place in Keyham, Plymouth on 12August 2021, and will respond to all of the recommendations made to the Department as soon as possible.