Firearms: Licensing
(asked on 4th June 2014) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Fire Arms Certificate (a) applications and (b) renewals were made in (i) 2011, (ii) 2012 and (iii) 2013.
This question was answered on 10th June 2014
Available data relate to the financial years 2010/11 to 2012/13 and were
published in Table 1 of ‘Firearm and Shotgun Certificates in England and Wales
2012/13', available online at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/firearm-and-shotgun-certificates-in-e
ngland-and-wales-2012-to-2013
For easy reference, data are also provided in the table below. Data relating to 2013/14 will be published on 7 August 2014.
| Number of new and renewal applications for firearm | |||||||||
| certificates in England and Wales, 2010/11 to 2012/131 | |||||||||
| New applications | Renewal applications | ||||||||
| Granted | Refused | Granted | Refused | ||||||
| 2010/11 | 11,286 | 129 | 34,132 | 34 | |||||
| 2011/12 | 11,502 | 119 | 35,723 | 50 | |||||
| 2012/13 | 10,077 | 138 | 28,696 | 54 | |||||
| 1. Source - These statistics are obtained from the National Firearms Licensing Management System. | |||||||||