HC Deb 05 February 1988 vol 126 c783W
Mr. Corbett

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate he has made of the cost of establishing and maintaining a central guns register.

Mr. Douglas Hogg

The recently published White Paper on the review of firearms controls drew attention to the possibility of establishing a national guns register, if on further examination, this seems desirable. I do not now have estimates of the costs which would be incurred in establishing and maintaining such a register.