Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what is their latest position of sanctions for Belarus.

Since 1 March we have launched a series of sanctions against Belarusian individuals and organisations in response to the role the country is playing in Russia's invasion of Ukraine, including facilitating the invasion from within its borders. On 1 March four senior defence officials and two military enterprises were sanctioned with immediate effect under the UK's Russia sanctions regime. Individuals sanctioned will be unable to travel to the UK and any UK-based assets will be frozen.

These designations are in addition to the wide-ranging measures we have already imposed on Belarus under our Belarus sanctions regime, which include sanctions on President Lukashenko and 117 other individuals and entities as well as trade, financial and aviation sanctions. The Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary have committed extending recent Russia sanctions to Belarus in due course. The Lukashenko regime will be made to feel the economic consequences for its support for Putin.