§ Mr. Farrasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the total number of shotgun certificates which have been issued to the latest available date.
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§ Mr. Elystan MorganThe only information I have relates to 31st October, 1968, by which time the new provisions under which shotgun certificates became compulsory had been in force for six months. On that date, 603,496 applications for shotgun certificates had been made to the police in England and Wales. 601,988 certificates had been issued. 1,013 applications had been refused. 1,379 applications had been made for visitors' certificates; all of these had been granted.