Bill Wiggin
Conservative, North Herefordshire
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many firearms and shotgun certificates have been refused in (a) 2013, (b) 2012, (c) 2011 and (d) 2010; and how many have been revoked.
Damian Green
The Minister for Policing and Criminal Justice, The Minister for Policing and Criminal Justice
The data requested were published in the recent Home Office statistical release Firearm and Shotgun Certificates in England and Wales 2012-13, available online at:
Data for financial years 2009-10 to 2012-13 are also provided in the table. Data relating to 2013-14 are expected to be published in the autumn of 2014.
| Number of new applications and renewal applications refused and the number of revocations for firearm and shotgun certificates in England and Wales, 2009-10 to 2012-13(1) | ||||||
| Firearm certificates | Shotgun certificates | |||||
| New applications refused | Renewal applications refused | Revocations | New applications refused | Renewal applications refused | Revocations | |
| 2009-10 | 105 | 15 | 302 | 462 | 45 | 1,076 |
| 2010-11 | 129 | 34 | 404 | 533 | 170 | 1,379 |
| 2011-12 | 119 | 50 | 349 | 651 | 191 | 1,301 |
| 2012-13 | 138 | 54 | 339 | 594 | 177 | 1,226 |
| (1 )Source: These statistics are obtained from the National Firearms Licensing Management System. | ||||||
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