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Written question asked by Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Labour) on Tuesday, 27 February 2024, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 29 February 2024. It was answered by Nigel Huddleston (Conservative) on Wednesday, 6 March 2024 on behalf of the Treasury.

Export Controls: Russia

Question

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps his Department is taking to strengthen the enforcement of export controls (a) in general and (b) to halt the potential transfer of British goods to Russia via third countries.

Answer

HMRC is responsible for enforcing export controls on strategic goods and sanctions and investigating potential breaches of those controls. There are extensive trade measures in place and the UK Government monitors the effectiveness of all its sanctions, including those made through the Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019.

We are committed to tackling sanctions circumvention, ensuring that sanctions are robustly enforced; potential breaches are investigated, and appropriate action taken. Departments from across HMG are working together, and with UK companies, to ensure that sanctions are enforced.

Internationally, we are working closely with our US and EU sanctions coordinators to raise circumvention with several countries to highlight these risks and support them to enforce sanctions effectively.

For information, on 22 May 2023, HMRC and DBT issued a Notice to Exporters outlining trade sanctions circumvention - https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/notice-to-exporters-202308-russia-sanctions-trade-sanctions-circumvention

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
15982
Session
2023-24
Transferred
Yes
Subjects
Enforcement Export controls Russia
Link
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