Lord Rooker
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(1 year, 10 months ago)
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Baroness Penn (Con)
I absolutely agree with my noble friend on the need for co-ordination across government. Obviously different regimes, such as the sanction regime and the proscription regime, have different legal frameworks. I am sure that across government we are working to look at all the tools we have available to ensure that groups supporting the atrocities we see in Ukraine are stopped and that we use the powers we have to intervene on their actions.
Lord Rooker (Lab)
What was the specific rank of the civil servants who took this decision?
Baroness Penn (Con)
I do not have that information and I would not comment on that. It is important to understand that this decision was clearly taken within the legal framework for sanctions that we have, which has been approved by this Parliament.