Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the numbers of semiconductors from manufacturers such as Intel, Advanced Micro Devices, Texas Instruments and others still reaching Russia despite the bans imposed after its invasion of Ukraine, and of the routes they have taken there.

The Government has prohibited the export from the UK to Russia of goods and technology, including semiconductors, that are critical to Russia's military-industrial complex.

The Government recognises that Russia is circumventing sanctions measures, including smuggling goods through back channels to restock supplies. We are working with partners, including the US and EU, to tackle routes that Russia is potentially using to circumvent our sanctions.

On 20 April the Government laid further legislation containing a new package of trade measures, including export prohibitions on items Russia has been found using on the battlefield to date.