Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to Table 8 of the Border Force transparency data published by her Department on 29 September 2022, how many seizures categorised as parts of guns are included in the totals for (a) lethal firearms in each quarter from April 2018 to March 2020 and (b) non-lethal firearms in each quarter from April 2020 to June 2022.

Please note that there was a change in the firearms definition in March 2021, items recorded under the sub category of ‘parts of guns’ moved from being classed as lethal to non-lethal. The data from 2020/21 has been refreshed in line with this change and from April 2020 they were counted as non-lethal firearms.

The following table provides the breakdown requested:

Notes

1. These figures have been taken from a live operational database. As such, numbers may change as information on that system is updated.

2. Data for January to March 2020 has been taken from two different data sources, due to Border Force moving to a new system for recording seizures. The data sets have been checked for duplicates.

3. This breakdown of data is not in the public domain; the published Border Force Transparency data only show the number of seizures broken down by lethal and non-lethal.