Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many firearms and of what type have been seized at the UK border in each year since 2010.

The table below shows the number and type of firearms seized by Border Force at the UK border, from 2010/11 to 2014/15:

Imitation includes: Readily Convertible Firearms and Realistic Imitation Firearms

‘Other’ includes: Parts of Guns, Mace and Pepper sprays, Stun weapons / Baton, Air Gas guns and Silencers.

The figures quoted are management information, which is subject to internal quality checks and may be subject to change. These figures are not already in the public domain.