Asked by: Lord Moynihan (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade:
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of how much aviation fuel used by flights out of London Gatwick and London Heathrow airports currently contains a proportion of fuel refined from Russian crude.
Answered by Lord Sarwar - Minister of State (Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade)
On 20 May 2026, the UK introduced new measures to strengthen sanctions on Russia. A General Licence was introduced as a temporary measure to support the phasing in of the ban on oil products refined in third countries from Russian crude.
The Government has not made an assessment on the volume of Russian crude derived jet fuel used at London Gatwick and London Heathrow.
Asked by: Lord Moynihan (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade:
To ask His Majesty's Government how much diesel and jet fuel have been imported into the UK from Türkiye and India using refined Russian crude oil since 20 May.
Answered by Lord Sarwar - Minister of State (Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade)
Traders can only import Russian oil products refined in third countries into the UK using General Licence GBSAN0004, which has an end date of 1 January 2027.
Regulation 76 of the Russia Regulations (2019) requires individuals or businesses acting under a General Trade Licence to notify BIST within 30 days of use, including the country the goods are being exported from.
Due to low volumes, figures of the exact volume notified to Government of diesel and jet fuel imported into the UK are withheld to prevent the identification of individuals or businesses as details of individual imports could be identifiable from this information.
Asked by: Lord Moynihan (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade:
To ask His Majesty's Government whether they exempted the imports of oil products refined abroad from Russian crude for an indefinite duration under the General Trade Licence exemption which took effect on 20 May.
Answered by Lord Sarwar - Minister of State (Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade)
On 20 May 2026, the UK introduced new measures to strengthen sanctions on Russia. The licence is a temporary measure to support the phasing in of the ban on oil products refined in third countries from Russian crude. The Government committed to reviewing the licence every two weeks. This involves continually assessing its impact on energy supply, market conditions and other relevant considerations, against our objective to lift the licence as soon as is practicable to further target Russian revenues and degrade its ability to wage its illegal war in Ukraine.
As part of this process, we have set an end date to the licence of 1 January 2027.
Asked by: Lord Moynihan (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade:
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by the Minister of State for the Department for Business and Trade on 26 November 2024 (HC15163), why they are unable to comment whether Elon Musk or representatives from Twitter UK or X were invited to attend the International Investment Summit in October 2024.
Answered by Baroness Gustafsson
The invitees for the Summit were carefully selected by DBT, HM Treasury and No.10 from our list of strategic business and current and future investment deals in the UK. DBT will continue to engage with all businesses that want to invest in the UK.