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Mike Penning corrected a written answer on Firearms: Crime

1 February 2016 · Commons written answer · Home Office

Mr Khalid Mahmood (Labour, Birmingham, Perry Barr) asked written question 21234 on 6 January 2016. Mike Penning answered on 13 January 2016 for the Home Office, and Mike Penning corrected the answer on 1 February 2016. The correction replaced 10 figures (1,226, 13,000, 243, 3,864, 4,798, 473) with 10 figures (1,269, 1,850, 17,000, 416, 479, 5,468). Altogether 196 words differ between the two versions.

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to prevent the supply of guns and ammunition at a neighbourhood level.

Original and corrected answer

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The Government and police work nationally, and with international partners, to reduce the threat to the UK from the criminal use of firearms. In 2013/14, firearms were used in a small and diminishing proportion of total police recorded crime, 0.2%. The figure for 2009/10 was 0.3%. Following the firearms surrenders in Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Greater Manchester and the West Midlands in 2013 and 2014, the National Ballistics Intelligence Service (NABIS) co-ordinated firearms surrenders in the majority of the Police Force areas in England and Wales during 2014 and 2015, resulting in the surrender of over 6000 items.
As of 7th January 2016; 3,864 firearms and over 13,000 items of ammunition have been recovered following the November 2015 firearms surrender, with 934 weapons being recovered prior to the November surrender. Of those items recovered in the November surrender (discounting ammunition, CS Sprays and Stun Guns), items include:
• 516 pistols;
• 473 revolvers;
• 1,226 shotguns;
• 243 rifles;
• 873 air weapons
This brings the total volume of firearms surrendered in the last eighteen months to 4,798. If ammunition, CS Sprays and Stun Guns are included this comes to over 6000.
Following publication of the Law Commission’s report on firearms law published on 16 December we will be reviewing options to strengthen the current legislation to ensure it safeguards against abuse by criminals.		The Government and police work nationally, and with international partners, to reduce the threat to the UK from the criminal use of firearms. In 2013/14, firearms were used in a small proportion of total police recorded crime, 0.2%. The figure for 2009/10 was 0.3%
Figures from the National Ballistics Intelligence Service (NABIS) show that in 2013 and 2014, there were 757 weapons recovered in firearm surrenders undertaken in the Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Greater Manchester and West Midlands Police Force areas.
Building on the success of these surrenders, NABIS co-ordinated firearms surrenders in the majority of the remaining Police Force areas in England and Wales during 2014 and 2015, resulting in the recovery of 5,468 weapons and over 17,000 items of ammunition. The items recovered included:
588 pistols;
479 revolvers;
1,850 shotguns;
416 rifles;
1,269 air weapons; and,
866 other items including gas guns, stun guns, CS sprays, BB guns and blank firers.
The total number of weapons recovered from all forces in England and Wales as a result of these surrenders was 6,225.
Following publication of the Law Commission’s report on firearms law published on 16 December 2015 we will be reviewing options to strengthen the current legislation to ensure it safeguards against abuse by criminals .

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