Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 18 July 2025 to Question 66600 on Slingshots: Regulation, what information her Department holds on the number of offences committed with hand-held catapults and slingshots against people in (a) Essex and (b) the UK.

The Home Office does not hold information on the number of police recorded offences that involved hand-held catapults or slingshots.