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 criminal offences committed of using a (a) catapult and (b) slingshot to attack animals since 2020.

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