§ Sir Teddy TaylorTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will publish his response to the Second report of the Home Affairs Committee for Session 1999–2000 on Controls over Firearms (HC95). [129505]
§ Mr. Charles ClarkeThe Government are currently considering the Select Committee's report and hopes to publish their response by way of a Command Paper shortly.
§ Sir Teddy TaylorTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what information he collates on the amount of time which is taken by each constabulary to534W come to a decision on applications for shotgun licences in the last five years; and what were the longest and shortest waiting times. [129506]
§ Mr. Charles ClarkeThe Government do not collect statistics routinely on the time taken by individual police forces to grant or renew shotgun certificates.