Question follow-through · 18176
Sanctions: Enforcement
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will take steps to increase resources for enforcement agencies to (a) investigate and (b) prosecute complex sanctions evasion schemes.
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- Answering body
- Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
- Tabled
- 5 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 9 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 18 Dec 2024 · 13 calendar days after tabling
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- Opposition Day Motion: Defence spending and readiness - Prime Minister's Amendment · 23 Jun 2026
- Opposition day: Defence spending and readiness · 23 Jun 2026
- Armed Forces Bill Report Stage: Amendment 11 · 22 Jun 2026
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Recorded timeline
5 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will take steps to increase resources for enforcement agencies to (a) investigate and (b) prosecute complex sanctions evasion schemes.
9 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Dec 2024
Answer published
A range of Departments have responsibility for the enforcement of UK sanctions, including the Home Office, Department for Business and Trade, Department for Transport and HM Treasury. Resourcing is decided by those Departments and their agencies in conjun...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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