Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many firearms licence (a) applications and (b) renewals were completed in (i) the UK, (ii) the East of England and (iii) West Suffolk constituency in each year since 2015.

The Home Office publishes information annually on the number of firearm and shotgun certificate applications and renewals that have been granted and refused in England and Wales in the statistical publication on firearm and shotgun certificates. The latest available data is for the year ending 31 March 2024 and can be accessed at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/firearm-certificates-in-england-and-wales

The number of firearm and shotgun certificate applications and renewals that have been granted and refused in England and Wales, the East of England region and Suffolk police force area in each year since 2015 can be found in data tables 2 and 4.

Data are not available by constituencies specifically. Police Scotland publish broadly comparable annual statistics on the number of firearm and shotgun certificates granted and renewed in Scotland:

https://www.scotland.police.uk/about-us/what-we-do/firearms-and-explosives-licensing/

There are no comparable statistics for Northern Ireland.