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Sanctions

Ministerial statement on Monday, 28 February 2022, in the House of Commons, led by Elizabeth Truss.
Statement on support for Ukraine.
Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
709 cc709-734 
Session
2021-22
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Proceeding contributions
Elizabeth Truss | 709 cc709-711 (Link to this contribution)

With permission, Mr Speaker, I wish to update the House on our support for Ukraine in the face of...

David Lammy | 709 cc711-3 (Link to this contribution)

I thank the Secretary of State for advance sight of her statement, and for the briefing that she ...


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Elizabeth Truss | 709 c713 (Link to this contribution)

I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his statement of unity; a strong message is going out to Put...

Lindsay Hoyle | 709 c714 (Link to this contribution)

I call the Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Tom Tugendhat.

Tom Tugendhat | 709 c714 (Link to this contribution)

I very much welcome my right hon. Friend’s commitment. She has been working literally through the...

Elizabeth Truss | 709 c714 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend is right. Our issue is not with the Russian people, many of whom are now protestin...

Alyn Smith | 709 c714 (Link to this contribution)

I am grateful for sight of the statement. The SNP is part of the global coalition in defence of U...

Elizabeth Truss | 709 c715 (Link to this contribution)

I agree that we need to continue to do more on sanctions. We are working night and day, including...

Flick Drummond | 709 c715 (Link to this contribution)

Further to the latest announcement that Switzerland, Japan and other democracies are joining to i...

Elizabeth Truss | 709 c715 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend is right. There is nobody in the world lining up with Vladimir Putin and his unpro...

Lindsay Hoyle | 709 c715 (Link to this contribution)

Order. I am looking to run this statement for about an hour. Short questions and speedy answers w...

Baroness Hodge of Barking | 709 c715 (Link to this contribution)

I thank the Foreign Secretary for the progress that she is making. I ask just two questions. Firs...

Elizabeth Truss | 709 c715 (Link to this contribution)

Members of the Duma can and will be sanctioned. We are working through the list of members in the...

Tobias Ellwood | 709 c716 (Link to this contribution)

It is indeed day five of the fighting, but the bells of St Michael’s in Kyiv continue to ring as ...

Elizabeth Truss | 709 c716 (Link to this contribution)

This sanctions package has been agreed across the G7, which represents more than 50% of the globa...

Layla Moran | 709 c716 (Link to this contribution)

The Foreign Secretary may be aware that last week I named 35 Russian oligarchs who are on the Nav...

Elizabeth Truss | 709 c716 (Link to this contribution)

I can indeed assure the hon. Lady that that is exactly what we are doing. We have a very large te...

Iain Duncan Smith | 709 cc716-7 (Link to this contribution)

I congratulate my right hon. Friend and all the team on their robust leadership in the course of ...

Elizabeth Truss | 709 c717 (Link to this contribution)

My right hon. Friend has made a very good point. We are looking at what we can do to target the f...

Ben Bradshaw | 709 c717 (Link to this contribution)

Will the Foreign Secretary name those London law firms that are sending her threatening letters t...

Elizabeth Truss | 709 c717 (Link to this contribution)

I can assure the right hon. Gentleman that it does not dissuade me when people send me letters; i...

Mark Pritchard | 709 c717 (Link to this contribution)

The armed forces and the people of Ukraine are fighting hard and fighting brave, and their courag...

Elizabeth Truss | 709 c717 (Link to this contribution)

I congratulate my hon. Friend on his leadership of the all-party parliamentary group on Ukraine. ...

Jeffrey M Donaldson | 709 c717 (Link to this contribution)

The people of Northern Ireland stand with the people of Ukraine and we commend the Government for...

Elizabeth Truss | 709 c718 (Link to this contribution)

We are already donating £40 million of additional humanitarian assistance to Ukraine. We are also...

Jason McCartney | 709 c718 (Link to this contribution)

I spent yesterday afternoon with dozens of members of Huddersfield and Colne Valley’s Ukrainian c...

Elizabeth Truss | 709 c718 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend is right to suggest that we have a very strong Ukrainian community right across th...

Debbie Abrahams | 709 c718 (Link to this contribution)

I also want to say that I stand with Ukraine and support the Foreign Secretary in the measures sh...

Elizabeth Truss | 709 c718 (Link to this contribution)

The hon. Lady is right that language is very important. This war is not on behalf of the Russian ...

Andrew Mitchell | 709 c718 (Link to this contribution)

I thank my right hon. Friend for the announcement that she and the Prime Minister made about huma...

Elizabeth Truss | 709 c719 (Link to this contribution)

The hon. Member for Oldham East and Saddleworth (Debbie Abrahams) asked about our friends across ...

Liz Saville Roberts | 709 c719 (Link to this contribution)

I welcome BP’s decision to divest from Rosneft after I raised the issue with the Prime Minister l...

Elizabeth Truss | 709 c719 (Link to this contribution)

Like the right hon. Lady, I welcome BP’s divestment. We are working closely with the overseas ter...

Alec Shelbrooke | 709 c719 (Link to this contribution)

Does my right hon. Friend agree that the sanctions regime must stay in place until every inch of ...

Elizabeth Truss | 709 c719 (Link to this contribution)

Yes, I completely agree with my right hon. Friend.

Marsha De Cordova | 709 c719 (Link to this contribution)

Many of my constituents are affected by the war in Ukraine. Like me, they recognise the need for ...

Elizabeth Truss | 709 c719 (Link to this contribution)

I announced today that export controls will apply to critical technologies, which will make it mu...

Julian Lewis | 709 c719 (Link to this contribution)

As a matter of superior tactics, does my right hon. Friend accept that the right way to deal with...

Elizabeth Truss | 709 c720 (Link to this contribution)

Yes is the answer, and that is what we are doing; we are pushing as hard as we can for the toughe...

Kirsten Oswald | 709 c720 (Link to this contribution)

Listening to the right hon. Lady’s comments, I am not entirely sure yet what the hold-up is with ...

Elizabeth Truss | 709 c720 (Link to this contribution)

I assure the hon. Lady that we have a hit list of oligarchs and Duma members—those key personnel ...

John Redwood | 709 c720 (Link to this contribution)

Will the Government now allow and encourage more domestic production of oil and gas, to help redu...

Elizabeth Truss | 709 c720 (Link to this contribution)

We certainly are committed to using the UK’s oil and gas fields. Energy independence is vital. We...

Barry Sheerman | 709 c720 (Link to this contribution)

May I offer the Secretary of State a little advice, as I have been in the House for quite some ti...

Elizabeth Truss | 709 c720 (Link to this contribution)

Let us be absolutely clear: this is unprovoked aggression by Putin, after months of warning that ...

Alicia Kearns | 709 c720 (Link to this contribution)

The UK and our allies have delivered meaningful economic strikes against Putin, but we now see th...

Elizabeth Truss | 709 c721 (Link to this contribution)

Regrettably, my hon. Friend is right; that is the type of action we are seeing being contemplated...

Lord Beamish | 709 c721 (Link to this contribution)

I thank the Foreign Secretary for her statement. She talks about a hit list of oligarchs. She kno...

Elizabeth Truss | 709 c721 (Link to this contribution)

We have announced more than 120 businesses and oligarchs who have already been sanctioned. There ...

Jeremy Hunt | 709 c721 (Link to this contribution)

May I commend the resolute approach being taken by my right hon. Friend and ask whether she will ...

Elizabeth Truss | 709 c721 (Link to this contribution)

Yes, we are looking at that, and my right hon. Friend is 100% right.

Hannah Bardell | 709 c721 (Link to this contribution)

I sat on the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Bill Committee and watched in horror as the righ...

Elizabeth Truss | 709 c721 (Link to this contribution)

I thank the hon. Lady for her welcome of the economic crime Bill that we will be introducing tomo...

William Cash | 709 c721 (Link to this contribution)

Will the Foreign Secretary confirm that the secondary legislation being introduced is now in the ...

Elizabeth Truss | 709 c722 (Link to this contribution)

I can assure my hon. Friend that the legislation will be in the Vote Office as soon as possible. ...

John Whittingdale | 709 c722 (Link to this contribution)

Will my right hon. Friend confirm that the Russian people are being consistently lied to by Russi...

Elizabeth Truss | 709 c722 (Link to this contribution)

My right hon. Friend is entirely right. There is, quite simply, a pack of lies being produced on ...

Ellie Reeves | 709 c722 (Link to this contribution)

I have been overwhelmed by messages from constituents who are horrified by Russia’s action in Ukr...

Elizabeth Truss | 709 c722 (Link to this contribution)

I can reassure the hon. Lady that we are doing all of those things. The sanctions that we current...

Brendan O'Hara | 709 c722 (Link to this contribution)

My constituents cannot understand why we still allow Russian state-owned oil tankers to use UK po...

Elizabeth Truss | 709 c723 (Link to this contribution)

They will not be going about their business freely for much longer.

Bernard Jenkin | 709 c723 (Link to this contribution)

If the BBC World Service comes to my right hon. Friend to ask for additional funding to increase ...

Elizabeth Truss | 709 c723 (Link to this contribution)

I will certainly entertain the request, and I will ensure it is value for money.

Chris Bryant | 709 c723 (Link to this contribution)

I do not understand why Abramovich and Usmanov have still not been included on the sanction list....

Elizabeth Truss | 709 c723 (Link to this contribution)

As I said earlier, we have a hit list of oligarchs that we are working through. My right hon. Fri...

Lord Grayling | 709 c723 (Link to this contribution)

This is an incredibly tough time for the people of Ukraine, but it is also an incredibly nervous ...

Elizabeth Truss | 709 c723 (Link to this contribution)

My right hon. Friend is correct. We know that Putin does not just want to take over Ukraine and r...

Cat Smith | 709 c723 (Link to this contribution)

I welcome the sanctions that the Foreign Secretary has set out and her words about getting Putin’...

Elizabeth Truss | 709 c723 (Link to this contribution)

There is a big difference between Russian people and supporters of the Putin regime. It is import...

Mark Logan | 709 c724 (Link to this contribution)

Hundreds of people rallied at Bolton town hall on Saturday. We have one of the most established U...

Elizabeth Truss | 709 c724 (Link to this contribution)

We would be absolutely delighted to do that.

Tony Lloyd | 709 c724 (Link to this contribution)

The House should commend the Foreign Secretary’s statement, but does she agree that with any sanc...

Elizabeth Truss | 709 c724 (Link to this contribution)

I will look into the case the hon. Gentleman raises.

Felicity Buchan | 709 c724 (Link to this contribution)

I warmly welcome the leadership that the UK has shown in developing intranational sanctions, but ...

Elizabeth Truss | 709 c724 (Link to this contribution)

I thank my hon. Friend for her very innovative idea and I will certainly have a look at it.

Lisa Cameron | 709 c724 (Link to this contribution)

Will the Government be looking to address the fact that cryptocurrency may be utilised to try to ...

Elizabeth Truss | 709 c724 (Link to this contribution)

We have worked very closely with the Treasury on this package of sanctions, and we are certainly ...

James Sunderland | 709 c724 (Link to this contribution)

The rhetoric and the statements coming out of the Kremlin this week would appear to indicate that...

Elizabeth Truss | 709 c724 (Link to this contribution)

I am very clear that there is a tough road ahead. We are with the Ukrainian people. We know that ...

Florence Eshalomi | 709 c725 (Link to this contribution)

Like Members across this House, I have been contacted by Vauxhall residents who want to express t...

Craig Whittaker | 709 c725 (Link to this contribution)

I thank my right hon. Friend, who over the past few weeks has worked tirelessly along with the Pr...

Elizabeth Truss | 709 c725 (Link to this contribution)

I am looking very closely at this with my colleague the Transport Secretary to get it addressed a...

Alistair Carmichael | 709 c725 (Link to this contribution)

I have to tell the Foreign Secretary that time is not on her side. The NS Challenger is due to be...

Elizabeth Truss | 709 c725 (Link to this contribution)

I am looking at this issue urgently with the Transport Secretary and I will get back to the right...

Jane Stevenson | 709 c725 (Link to this contribution)

When parliamentarians in this place see our counterparts in Ukraine taking up arms to defend thei...

Elizabeth Truss | 709 c725 (Link to this contribution)

We have seen the acts of incredible bravery from the Ukrainian population and Ukrainian politicia...

Liam Byrne | 709 c726 (Link to this contribution)

The whole House will welcome the Foreign Secretary’s ambition this afternoon, but can we speed up...

Elizabeth Truss | 709 c726 (Link to this contribution)

We are leading from the front. For example, we are banning clearing from Sberbank, which the EU i...

David Morris | 709 c726 (Link to this contribution)

I pay tribute to the bravery of the Ukrainian people. Change often begins at home, and in this pa...

Elizabeth Truss | 709 c726 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend is correct about Navalny; he ought to be released. We have seen a terrible suppres...

Kerry McCarthy | 709 c726 (Link to this contribution)

Following on from that, we know how ruthless Putin can be when it comes to internal opposition. Y...

Elizabeth Truss | 709 c727 (Link to this contribution)

We have always worked to support those who speak out in favour of free speech, free media and dem...

Richard Graham | 709 c727 (Link to this contribution)

I warmly welcome the leadership shown and the progress made by the Foreign Secretary and the Gove...

Elizabeth Truss | 709 c727 (Link to this contribution)

I have had a phone call with my UAE counterpart to make exactly those points. Every country aroun...

Caroline Lucas | 709 c727 (Link to this contribution)

I am pleased that the Foreign Secretary has urged Russia to enable safe passage for civilians to ...

Elizabeth Truss | 709 c727 (Link to this contribution)

Our ambassador, who is in Lviv, is doing a fantastic job in very difficult circumstances. We are ...

Jonathan Djanogly | 709 c727 (Link to this contribution)

I realised that the Government really understood the nature of sanctioning oligarchs when the san...

Elizabeth Truss | 709 c728 (Link to this contribution)

I thank my hon. Friend for his idea. Nothing is off the table.

Diana Johnson | 709 c728 (Link to this contribution)

I welcome what the Foreign Secretary said about banning Russian airlines and Russian ships from d...

Elizabeth Truss | 709 c728 (Link to this contribution)

The local opposition is right and we are working as fast as we can to deal with the issue.

Richard Drax | 709 c728 (Link to this contribution)

I commend my right hon. Friend and her team for all their amazing work in the face of this appall...

Elizabeth Truss | 709 c728 (Link to this contribution)

Yes, that sounds like a petition to the Chancellor about the Foreign Office’s budget, which I who...

Sammy Wilson | 709 c728 (Link to this contribution)

First, I congratulate the Foreign Secretary on the role that she has played in the collective eff...

Elizabeth Truss | 709 c728 (Link to this contribution)

I can assure the right hon. Gentleman that the ones named in the statement are either in our legi...

Kieran Mullan | 709 c728 (Link to this contribution)

India is a great friend of the UK and a leading democracy, and Indian communities prosper in demo...

Elizabeth Truss | 709 c729 (Link to this contribution)

That is absolutely correct. Every sovereign nation that believes in fair play and the rule of law...

Alex Sobel | 709 c729 (Link to this contribution)

As somebody who had a grandparent born and raised in Ukraine, this war does come emotionally quit...

Elizabeth Truss | 709 c729 (Link to this contribution)

We are running through a list, and we have already sanctioned over 120 businesses in Russia and o...

Matt Hancock | 709 c729 (Link to this contribution)

I congratulate the Foreign Secretary and the Government on the swift action they have taken, incl...

Elizabeth Truss | 709 c729 (Link to this contribution)

My right hon. Friend is right. The reality is that Putin has made these threats to distract from ...

Sam Tarry | 709 c729 (Link to this contribution)

Earlier, we unfortunately had an opaque response to my hon. Friend the Member for Lancaster and F...

Elizabeth Truss | 709 c729 (Link to this contribution)

As I have said, we cannot tar every single person of Russian origin with the same brush. We are t...

Peter Bone | 709 c730 (Link to this contribution)

I thank the Foreign Secretary for coming to the House to update Members. I understand that today ...

Elizabeth Truss | 709 c730 (Link to this contribution)

We have moved our travel advice on Russia to red, which means that we advise against all travel. ...

Chris Law | 709 c730 (Link to this contribution)

In the past eight years there has been a war, not just in the past few days. During that time, it...

Elizabeth Truss | 709 c730 (Link to this contribution)

We are looking at what can be done with RT, but if we ban RT in the United Kingdom, that is likel...

Sally-Ann Hart | 709 c730 (Link to this contribution)

The vast majority of Russian people are like us. They want to earn money, provide for their famil...

Elizabeth Truss | 709 c730 (Link to this contribution)

I completely agree with my hon. Friend that we must do all we can to stiffen the resolve of those...

Hilary Benn | 709 c730 (Link to this contribution)

My constituent’s wife and child are currently fleeing the violence in Ukraine, and they hope to r...

Elizabeth Truss | 709 c731 (Link to this contribution)

It is appalling to hear about the horrific situation that the family of the right hon. Gentleman’...

John Penrose | 709 c731 (Link to this contribution)

Four years ago an inquiry was announced into the progress of golden visas that had potentially be...

Elizabeth Truss | 709 c731 (Link to this contribution)

Well, Mr Speaker, they will not be able to travel.

Barry Gardiner | 709 c731 (Link to this contribution)

The Giorgidze family, the Reckon family and many others in my constituency have family members an...

Elizabeth Truss | 709 c731 (Link to this contribution)

We have been working closely with the Home Office on this issue as well as the Polish Government....

Mark Pawsey | 709 c731 (Link to this contribution)

I welcome the additional Government measures announced today, but will the Foreign Secretary reco...

Elizabeth Truss | 709 c731 (Link to this contribution)

I welcome the actions by companies who are dissociating themselves from working with the Putin re...

Stewart Malcolm McDonald | 709 c731 (Link to this contribution)

We have all witnessed the horrifying war crimes taking place against the people of Ukraine. One w...

Elizabeth Truss | 709 c732 (Link to this contribution)

Yes, we are working on that. We are working closely with the International Criminal Court, and th...

Rob Butler | 709 c732 (Link to this contribution)

I very much welcome the Foreign Secretary’s robust statement on further sanctions on Russia and s...

Elizabeth Truss | 709 c732 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend is right. The Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport is looking ...

Justin Madders | 709 c732 (Link to this contribution)

I am pleased to hear that the Foreign Secretary will not be cowed by letters from oligarchs’ lawy...

Elizabeth Truss | 709 c732 (Link to this contribution)

The Foreign Office is currently full of lawyers working through precisely that point.

Jack Brereton | 709 c732 (Link to this contribution)

I very much welcome the UK’s robust global leadership against Putin’s Russia. The high dependency...

Elizabeth Truss | 709 c732 (Link to this contribution)

I am working closely with my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and In...

Drew Hendry | 709 c732 (Link to this contribution)

The public would rightly expect Departments and the Cabinet to be working together at a time like...

Elizabeth Truss | 709 c733 (Link to this contribution)

As I said earlier, my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary has just announced the new Ukrainian h...

Anthony Mangnall | 709 c733 (Link to this contribution)

The Foreign Secretary announced the launching of a joint taskforce to hunt down the assets of oli...

Elizabeth Truss | 709 c733 (Link to this contribution)

This really pertains to a number of questions that have been asked. What we are doing in building...

Kevin Brennan | 709 c733 (Link to this contribution)

I think all of us, particularly those of us who were Members of the House in September 2001, real...

Elizabeth Truss | 709 c733 (Link to this contribution)

I do not have that figure on me, but I can get it to the hon. Gentleman. The point that I was mak...

Patricia Gibson | 709 c733 (Link to this contribution)

Can the Foreign Secretary explain why the Russian ambassador to the UK is yet to be dismissed, an...

Elizabeth Truss | 709 c734 (Link to this contribution)

It is very important in all that we do that we work with allies, and co-ordinated action is vital...

Dave Doogan | 709 c734 (Link to this contribution)

I listened to the Foreign Secretary correctly detail the importance of avoiding sanctions leakage...

Elizabeth Truss | 709 c734 (Link to this contribution)

I have been very clear that we will absolutely include overseas territories in all the measures t...

Jonathan Edwards | 709 c734 (Link to this contribution)

The sister of my constituent, Mrs Roach from Cwmann, has been travelling across Ukraine with her ...

Elizabeth Truss | 709 c734 (Link to this contribution)

That is a matter for the Home Office, and I would be very pleased to raise the hon. Gentleman’s c...

Margaret Ferrier | 709 c734 (Link to this contribution)

The World Health Organisation has warned that oxygen supplies are running dangerously low in Ukra...

Elizabeth Truss | 709 c734 (Link to this contribution)

I discussed this issue with my right hon. Friend the Health Secretary this morning. We have a shi...

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