Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many licences granted by the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation since 24 February 2022, in connection with the Russia regime, related to (a) covering expenses such as food, rent and medicines, referred to as basic needs, (b) reasonable professional legal fees or reasonable expenses associated with the provision of legal services, (c) prior obligations, if the obligation/contract started before the sanction was imposed, (d) covering the payment of fees/service charges for routine holding or maintenance of frozen funds or economic resources, (e) pre-existing judicial decisions, (f) extraordinary expenses, where considered appropriate, (g) extraordinary situations, where considered appropriate and only for non-UN listed persons, (h) humanitarian assistance and (i) diplomatic missions.

The Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) publishes the number of financial sanctions licences issued in its Annual Review. Information about the total number of licences including the number of licences for each derogation that OFSI has granted for the last five financial years can be found in OFSI’s Annual Review documents, which are publicly available on OFSI’s website. OFSI will publish the latest figures in the next Annual Review in due course. OFSI does not publish details about individual licences granted, including source and quantum of funds licensed.