Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of Burma Campaign UK's briefing of May which estimates that more than 2 million people have been forced to flee their homes since the military coup and that 21,000 people have been arrested, with 17,000 still detained; and whether they intend to scale up and accelerate the targeted sanctions and the cutting off of sources of revenue, arms and equipment to the military junta and its forces.

The UK welcomes Burma Campaign's briefing on the Myanmar Crisis. We are very worried about the deteriorating situation in Myanmar. In response, the UK continues to work closely with the US, Canada and the EU to target sanctions on the military's access to revenue, arms and equipment. Since the coup, the UK has issued fifteen rounds of targeted sanctions to put pressure on the military regime without harming the wider population.