Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the (a) Global Human Rights Sanctions and (b) Global Anti-Corruption Sanctions regimes for imposing Magnitsky sanctions in the context of the Government making no designations under either regime since January 2022.

The UK has continued to impose sanctions on human rights violators and abusers to maximum effect, as well as corrupt actors. We will continue to use our Magnitsky sanctions regimes to pursue designations in response to human rights violations, abuses and serious corruption, and are currently investigating targets for further sanctions this autumn. Since the UK Magnitsky regimes were put in place in 2020 and 2021, we have sanctioned 81 persons under Global Human Rights and 27 under our Global Anti-Corruption regime.