Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that medical records flag up people who hold shotgun and firearms certificates and that appropriate medical conditions are rapidly communicated to the police.
The Home Office has set up a working group to consider how to improve information sharing arrangements between General Practitioners and police regarding shotgun and firearm certificate holders. Those represented on the
group include the police, the medical profession and shooting organisations.
At the meeting on 21 January the group discussed the possibility of flagging the medical records of people who hold shotgun and firearm certificates, and further work to explore this is being taken forward.