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<p>Firearms licensing is administered by the police. The Home Office does not hold
information about the time taken by forces to process firearms licences.<br><br>There
is ongoing work by government and the police to improve the efficiency of the system.
An important component for this is the development of an onlinesystem called eCommerce
which is being developed by the police as part of a business change programme to standardise
and improve turnaround times.<br><br>Information about the number of firearms certificates
issued in each region of England and Wales is published in "Firearm and Shotgun
Certificates in England and Wales 2013/14" which is available on the GOV.UK website
at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/firearm-and-shotgun-certificates-in-england-and-wales-financial-year-ending-march-2014/firearm-and-shotgun-certificates-in-england-and-wales-financial-year-ending-march-2014"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/firearm-and-shotgun-certificates-in-england-and-wales-financial-year-ending-march-2014/firearm-and-shotgun-certificates-in-england-and-wales-financial-year-ending-march-2014</a><br><br>Information
relating to the number of certificates issued in Scotland can be found on the Scottish
Government website at: <br><a href="http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2014/10/4039/0"
target="_blank">http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2014/10/4039/0</a> <br><br>The
Police Service of Northern Ireland lists its statistical outputs on the PSNI Statistics
page of its website at: <br><a href="http://www.psni.police.uk/directory/updates/updates_statistics.htm"
target="_blank">http://www.psni.police.uk/directory/updates/updates_statistics.htm</a>.
However, there are no series of statistics that are directly comparable to those for
England and Wales or Scotland.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p>
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