FOI 0915-2025/26- Firearms applications

Request:

Legislative Conversion of Shooting Galleries

In her letter dated 23 June this year (DECS Reference: MIN/1337094/25), the Minister of State for Policing and Crime Prevention indicated that police forces ought to be prepared to address the demands arising from the recent changes to firearm legislation.

Q1. Would you please provide a breakdown of the number of applications received by your force since 01/01/2025 and the total number of club certificates issued to date?

Response: 

Extent and Result of Searches to Locate Information

To locate the information relevant to your request searches were conducted within North Yorkshire Police.

I can confirm that the information you have requested is held by North Yorkshire Police. 

Decision

I have today decided to disclose the following information to you.

Q1. Please see the table below the number of applications received since 01 January 2025, broken down by application type.

Variation application – 293

We have 13 club certificates.

Please note that systems used for recording information are not generic, nor are the procedures used locally in capturing the data.  It should be noted therefore that this force’s response to your questions should not be used for comparison purposes with any other responses you may receive.