Question follow-through · 36313
Overseas Trade: Russia
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department is taking steps to support British businesses that lawfully traded with now-sanctioned Russian (a) businesses and (b) people to help them to recover funds lawfully owed to them.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 6 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 10 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 13 Mar 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
6 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department is taking steps to support British businesses that lawfully traded with now-sanctioned Russian (a) businesses and (b) people to help them to recover funds lawfully owed to them.
10 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 Mar 2025
Answer published
Our sanctions are designed to minimise impact on the UK and avoid unintended consequences. The Department for Business and Trade has sought to minimise the impact on businesses through implementing appropriate exceptions, specific licences where appropria...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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