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Syria: Development Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will take steps to use UK-based assets that were expropriated by the Assad regime for (a) aid and (b) re-development projects to help the Syrian people.

answeredForeign, Commonwealth and Development Office

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Answering body: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Tabled: 17 Dec 2024
Target answer date: 19 Dec 2024
Answer: 6 Jan 2025 · 20 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

17 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will take steps to use UK-based assets that were expropriated by the Assad regime for (a) aid and (b) re-development projects to help the Syrian people.
19 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
6 Jan 2025
Answer published
UK-based assets expropriated by the Assad regime remain frozen. As with all our sanctions, we keep our approach under review.We do not comment on future designations as to do so lessens their potential impact.

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