You asked
FOI reference: FOI-2025-2706
Please can you tell me between the years of 2000 to 2024 the percentage of gun crime in the UK or England Wales broken down by the sex of the offender.
We said
Thank you for your enquiry.
We are responsible for publishing crime data for England and Wales.
We publish the number of offences recorded by the police in which firearms were reported to have been used, by type of principal weapon and percentage change in England and Wales for the year ending March 2003 to the year ending September 2024. This data can be found in Table B4 of our Crime in England and Wales: Appendix tables.
Unfortunately, we do not hold data on firearms before the year ending March 2003 or firearms data broken down by sex.
The Home Office are responsible for collecting police recorded crime data and might be able to help you further with your enquiry. They can be contacted at CrimeandPoliceStats@homeoffice.gov.uk.
The Ministry of Justice publish data on prosecutions, convictions and sentencing data for firearms offences by sex from 2010 to 2022 in their Outcomes by Offence data tool, which is published as part of their Criminal Justice System statistics quarterly: December 2022 publication.