PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Airguns (25 March 2021)

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 8 February 2021 to Question 147915 on Airguns, if she will publish the evidence on controls on air weapons in Scotland and Northern Ireland that her Department considered as part of its review of air weapons.

Asked by:
Karin Smyth (Labour)

The Government conducted a review of air weapons regulation following the death of a child involving an air weapon. We invited views on the issue from a wide range of interested parties. As part of the review, the Government also looked at the arrangements that apply to the controls on air weapons in Scotland and Northern Ireland, but we did not solicit specific evidence in relation to the position in those administrations.

We published the outcomes of the review and sought views on our proposals for changes to the regulation of air weapons in the public consultation on firearms safety issues which ran from 24 November 2020 to 16 February 2021.

We will publish our formal response to the consultation, including in relation to air weapons controls in due course, following a full and careful consideration of the responses we received.

Answered by:
Kit Malthouse (Conservative)
13 April 2021