Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what are the groups which make up the total of section 5 authority holders under the Firearms Act 1968; and how many persons fall into each group.

The Government carried out a consultation on the implementation of new fees for applications for section 5 licences from 12 January to 9 March. The impact assessment accompanying the consultation, available on www.gov.uk, sets out the estimated number of holders for the most common types of section 5 licence, based on the number of applications made between January 2013 and December 2015. In the case of an exhibitors at the Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) exhibition (which are issued on a temporary basis), the figure provided is the number of holders in 2015. The figures in the impact assessment are set out in the following table: