Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his officials have held discussions with Acteon Group on providing services to the gas industry in Myanmar.

We are aware of reports that a subsidiary of Acteon Group has previously provided services to the gas industry in Myanmar. We have not discussed this with them directly but we have been clear that all businesses operating in Myanmar should conduct thorough due diligence to ensure they are not inadvertently supporting the Myanmar military. Since the military coup in Myanmar on 1st February 2021, the UK has led international efforts to reduce the military's access to revenue, arms and equipment. We have imposed fourteen rounds of sanctions on the regime, most recently on 31 January, designating companies involved in the supply of aviation fuel to the Myanmar Air Force. We will continue to consider both sanctions and non-sanctions measures to hold this brutal regime to account.