Sanctions
With permission, Mr Speaker, I wish to update the House on our support for Ukraine in the face of...
I thank the Secretary of State for advance sight of her statement, and for the briefing that she ...
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I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his statement of unity; a strong message is going out to Put...
I call the Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Tom Tugendhat.
I very much welcome my right hon. Friend’s commitment. She has been working literally through the...
My hon. Friend is right. Our issue is not with the Russian people, many of whom are now protestin...
I call the SNP spokesperson.
I am grateful for sight of the statement. The SNP is part of the global coalition in defence of U...
I agree that we need to continue to do more on sanctions. We are working night and day, including...
Further to the latest announcement that Switzerland, Japan and other democracies are joining to i...
My hon. Friend is right. There is nobody in the world lining up with Vladimir Putin and his unpro...
Order. I am looking to run this statement for about an hour. Short questions and speedy answers w...
I thank the Foreign Secretary for the progress that she is making. I ask just two questions. Firs...
Members of the Duma can and will be sanctioned. We are working through the list of members in the...
It is indeed day five of the fighting, but the bells of St Michael’s in Kyiv continue to ring as ...
This sanctions package has been agreed across the G7, which represents more than 50% of the globa...
The Foreign Secretary may be aware that last week I named 35 Russian oligarchs who are on the Nav...
I can indeed assure the hon. Lady that that is exactly what we are doing. We have a very large te...
I congratulate my right hon. Friend and all the team on their robust leadership in the course of ...
My right hon. Friend has made a very good point. We are looking at what we can do to target the f...
Will the Foreign Secretary name those London law firms that are sending her threatening letters t...
I can assure the right hon. Gentleman that it does not dissuade me when people send me letters; i...
The armed forces and the people of Ukraine are fighting hard and fighting brave, and their courag...
I congratulate my hon. Friend on his leadership of the all-party parliamentary group on Ukraine. ...
The people of Northern Ireland stand with the people of Ukraine and we commend the Government for...
We are already donating £40 million of additional humanitarian assistance to Ukraine. We are also...
I spent yesterday afternoon with dozens of members of Huddersfield and Colne Valley’s Ukrainian c...
My hon. Friend is right to suggest that we have a very strong Ukrainian community right across th...
I also want to say that I stand with Ukraine and support the Foreign Secretary in the measures sh...
The hon. Lady is right that language is very important. This war is not on behalf of the Russian ...
I thank my right hon. Friend for the announcement that she and the Prime Minister made about huma...
The hon. Member for Oldham East and Saddleworth (Debbie Abrahams) asked about our friends across ...
I welcome BP’s decision to divest from Rosneft after I raised the issue with the Prime Minister l...
Like the right hon. Lady, I welcome BP’s divestment. We are working closely with the overseas ter...
Does my right hon. Friend agree that the sanctions regime must stay in place until every inch of ...
Yes, I completely agree with my right hon. Friend.
Many of my constituents are affected by the war in Ukraine. Like me, they recognise the need for ...
I announced today that export controls will apply to critical technologies, which will make it mu...
As a matter of superior tactics, does my right hon. Friend accept that the right way to deal with...
Yes is the answer, and that is what we are doing; we are pushing as hard as we can for the toughe...
Listening to the right hon. Lady’s comments, I am not entirely sure yet what the hold-up is with ...
I assure the hon. Lady that we have a hit list of oligarchs and Duma members—those key personnel ...
Will the Government now allow and encourage more domestic production of oil and gas, to help redu...
We certainly are committed to using the UK’s oil and gas fields. Energy independence is vital. We...
May I offer the Secretary of State a little advice, as I have been in the House for quite some ti...
Let us be absolutely clear: this is unprovoked aggression by Putin, after months of warning that ...
The UK and our allies have delivered meaningful economic strikes against Putin, but we now see th...
Regrettably, my hon. Friend is right; that is the type of action we are seeing being contemplated...
I thank the Foreign Secretary for her statement. She talks about a hit list of oligarchs. She kno...
We have announced more than 120 businesses and oligarchs who have already been sanctioned. There ...
May I commend the resolute approach being taken by my right hon. Friend and ask whether she will ...
Yes, we are looking at that, and my right hon. Friend is 100% right.
I sat on the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Bill Committee and watched in horror as the righ...
I thank the hon. Lady for her welcome of the economic crime Bill that we will be introducing tomo...
Will the Foreign Secretary confirm that the secondary legislation being introduced is now in the ...
I can assure my hon. Friend that the legislation will be in the Vote Office as soon as possible. ...
Will my right hon. Friend confirm that the Russian people are being consistently lied to by Russi...
My right hon. Friend is entirely right. There is, quite simply, a pack of lies being produced on ...
I have been overwhelmed by messages from constituents who are horrified by Russia’s action in Ukr...
I can reassure the hon. Lady that we are doing all of those things. The sanctions that we current...
My constituents cannot understand why we still allow Russian state-owned oil tankers to use UK po...
They will not be going about their business freely for much longer.
If the BBC World Service comes to my right hon. Friend to ask for additional funding to increase ...
I will certainly entertain the request, and I will ensure it is value for money.
I do not understand why Abramovich and Usmanov have still not been included on the sanction list....
As I said earlier, we have a hit list of oligarchs that we are working through. My right hon. Fri...
This is an incredibly tough time for the people of Ukraine, but it is also an incredibly nervous ...
My right hon. Friend is correct. We know that Putin does not just want to take over Ukraine and r...
I welcome the sanctions that the Foreign Secretary has set out and her words about getting Putin’...
There is a big difference between Russian people and supporters of the Putin regime. It is import...
Hundreds of people rallied at Bolton town hall on Saturday. We have one of the most established U...
We would be absolutely delighted to do that.
The House should commend the Foreign Secretary’s statement, but does she agree that with any sanc...
I will look into the case the hon. Gentleman raises.
I warmly welcome the leadership that the UK has shown in developing intranational sanctions, but ...
I thank my hon. Friend for her very innovative idea and I will certainly have a look at it.
Will the Government be looking to address the fact that cryptocurrency may be utilised to try to ...
We have worked very closely with the Treasury on this package of sanctions, and we are certainly ...
The rhetoric and the statements coming out of the Kremlin this week would appear to indicate that...
I am very clear that there is a tough road ahead. We are with the Ukrainian people. We know that ...
Like Members across this House, I have been contacted by Vauxhall residents who want to express t...
I am happy to raise that issue.
I thank my right hon. Friend, who over the past few weeks has worked tirelessly along with the Pr...
I am looking very closely at this with my colleague the Transport Secretary to get it addressed a...
I have to tell the Foreign Secretary that time is not on her side. The NS Challenger is due to be...
I am looking at this issue urgently with the Transport Secretary and I will get back to the right...
When parliamentarians in this place see our counterparts in Ukraine taking up arms to defend thei...
We have seen the acts of incredible bravery from the Ukrainian population and Ukrainian politicia...
The whole House will welcome the Foreign Secretary’s ambition this afternoon, but can we speed up...
We are leading from the front. For example, we are banning clearing from Sberbank, which the EU i...
I pay tribute to the bravery of the Ukrainian people. Change often begins at home, and in this pa...
My hon. Friend is correct about Navalny; he ought to be released. We have seen a terrible suppres...
Following on from that, we know how ruthless Putin can be when it comes to internal opposition. Y...
We have always worked to support those who speak out in favour of free speech, free media and dem...
I warmly welcome the leadership shown and the progress made by the Foreign Secretary and the Gove...
I have had a phone call with my UAE counterpart to make exactly those points. Every country aroun...
I am pleased that the Foreign Secretary has urged Russia to enable safe passage for civilians to ...
Our ambassador, who is in Lviv, is doing a fantastic job in very difficult circumstances. We are ...
I realised that the Government really understood the nature of sanctioning oligarchs when the san...
I thank my hon. Friend for his idea. Nothing is off the table.
I welcome what the Foreign Secretary said about banning Russian airlines and Russian ships from d...
The local opposition is right and we are working as fast as we can to deal with the issue.
I commend my right hon. Friend and her team for all their amazing work in the face of this appall...
Yes, that sounds like a petition to the Chancellor about the Foreign Office’s budget, which I who...
First, I congratulate the Foreign Secretary on the role that she has played in the collective eff...
I can assure the right hon. Gentleman that the ones named in the statement are either in our legi...
India is a great friend of the UK and a leading democracy, and Indian communities prosper in demo...
That is absolutely correct. Every sovereign nation that believes in fair play and the rule of law...
As somebody who had a grandparent born and raised in Ukraine, this war does come emotionally quit...
We are running through a list, and we have already sanctioned over 120 businesses in Russia and o...
I congratulate the Foreign Secretary and the Government on the swift action they have taken, incl...
My right hon. Friend is right. The reality is that Putin has made these threats to distract from ...
Earlier, we unfortunately had an opaque response to my hon. Friend the Member for Lancaster and F...
As I have said, we cannot tar every single person of Russian origin with the same brush. We are t...
I thank the Foreign Secretary for coming to the House to update Members. I understand that today ...
We have moved our travel advice on Russia to red, which means that we advise against all travel. ...
In the past eight years there has been a war, not just in the past few days. During that time, it...
We are looking at what can be done with RT, but if we ban RT in the United Kingdom, that is likel...
The vast majority of Russian people are like us. They want to earn money, provide for their famil...
I completely agree with my hon. Friend that we must do all we can to stiffen the resolve of those...
My constituent’s wife and child are currently fleeing the violence in Ukraine, and they hope to r...
It is appalling to hear about the horrific situation that the family of the right hon. Gentleman’...
Four years ago an inquiry was announced into the progress of golden visas that had potentially be...
Well, Mr Speaker, they will not be able to travel.
The Giorgidze family, the Reckon family and many others in my constituency have family members an...
We have been working closely with the Home Office on this issue as well as the Polish Government....
I welcome the additional Government measures announced today, but will the Foreign Secretary reco...
I welcome the actions by companies who are dissociating themselves from working with the Putin re...
We have all witnessed the horrifying war crimes taking place against the people of Ukraine. One w...
Yes, we are working on that. We are working closely with the International Criminal Court, and th...
I very much welcome the Foreign Secretary’s robust statement on further sanctions on Russia and s...
My hon. Friend is right. The Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport is looking ...
I am pleased to hear that the Foreign Secretary will not be cowed by letters from oligarchs’ lawy...
The Foreign Office is currently full of lawyers working through precisely that point.
I very much welcome the UK’s robust global leadership against Putin’s Russia. The high dependency...
I am working closely with my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and In...
The public would rightly expect Departments and the Cabinet to be working together at a time like...
As I said earlier, my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary has just announced the new Ukrainian h...
The Foreign Secretary announced the launching of a joint taskforce to hunt down the assets of oli...
This really pertains to a number of questions that have been asked. What we are doing in building...
I think all of us, particularly those of us who were Members of the House in September 2001, real...
I do not have that figure on me, but I can get it to the hon. Gentleman. The point that I was mak...
Can the Foreign Secretary explain why the Russian ambassador to the UK is yet to be dismissed, an...
It is very important in all that we do that we work with allies, and co-ordinated action is vital...
I listened to the Foreign Secretary correctly detail the importance of avoiding sanctions leakage...
I have been very clear that we will absolutely include overseas territories in all the measures t...
The sister of my constituent, Mrs Roach from Cwmann, has been travelling across Ukraine with her ...
That is a matter for the Home Office, and I would be very pleased to raise the hon. Gentleman’s c...
The World Health Organisation has warned that oxygen supplies are running dangerously low in Ukra...
I discussed this issue with my right hon. Friend the Health Secretary this morning. We have a shi...