Question follow-through · 23613
Iran: National Security
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he is taking with the Secretary of State for the Home Department to help deter malign Iranian activity in the UK.
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- Answering body
- Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
- Tabled
- 13 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 15 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 21 Jan 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
13 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he is taking with the Secretary of State for the Home Department to help deter malign Iranian activity in the UK.
15 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 Jan 2025
Answer published
Iran's malign activity is unacceptable. In response the to the regime's human rights violations, nuclear weapons programme, malign influence internationally and state threats, the UK has more than 450 sanctions designations in place on Iranian individuals...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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