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Westminster Hall
Sri Lanka: Human Rights - Wed 20 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Elliot Colburn (Con - Carshalton and Wallington) Despite overwhelming evidence, no perpetrators have faced sanctions under the UK’s new Magnitsky Act-style - Speech Link
2: Brendan O'Hara (SNP - Argyll and Bute) It should apply targeted Magnitsky sanctions against those who can be identified as active or complicit - Speech Link
3: Anna McMorrin (Lab - Cardiff North) First, are the UK Government willing to consider human rights sanctions against those deemed responsible - Speech Link
4: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) The first was about human rights sanctions, and as I think she inferred, we certainly keep such matters - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Zimbabwe: Sanctions - Thu 07 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Oates (LD - Life peer) human rights and corruption sanctions regimes? - Speech Link
2: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Con - Life peer) sanctions, not just in countries such as Zimbabwe but across the world. - Speech Link
3: Lord Collins of Highbury (Lab - Life peer) My Lords, I welcome what the Minister says about targeted sanctions. - Speech Link
4: Lord Alton of Liverpool (XB - Life peer) Secondly, will he look again at the opaque way in which Magnitsky sanctions are imposed? - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Foreign Affairs - Tue 05 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Stroud (Con - Life peer) Iran’s economy has grown faster than western counterparts despite US sanctions. Why? - Speech Link
2: Lord Mackenzie of Framwellgate (Non-affiliated - Life peer) himself is a target of Putin for campaigning for justice in the case of his Russian solicitor, Sergei Magnitsky - Speech Link


Deposited Papers

Feb. 23 2024

Source Page: Deter, disrupt and demonstrate: UK sanctions in a contested world: Incl. annexes. 28p.
Document: world.pdf (PDF)

Found: Deter, disrupt and demonstrate: UK sanctions in a contested world: Incl. annexes. 28p.


Departmental Publication (Policy paper)
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Feb. 22 2024

Source Page: Deter, disrupt and demonstrate – UK sanctions in a contested world: UK sanctions strategy
Document: Deter, disrupt and demonstrate – UK sanctions in a contested world: UK sanctions strategy (PDF)

Found: Deter, disrupt and demonstrate – UK sanctions in a contested world: UK sanctions strategy


Written Question
West Bank: Violence
Wednesday 21st February 2024

Asked by: Kenny MacAskill (Alba Party - East Lothian)

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, if he will apply Magnitsky-style sanctions to (a) Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, (b) Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, (d) David Chai Chasdai, (e) Einan Tanjil, (f) Shalom Zicherman and (g) Yinon Levi, in the context of (i) the US President's executive order in relation to settler violence in the West Bank and (ii) the Foreign Secretary's announcement that he will ban those responsible for settler violence from entering the UK.

Answered by Andrew Mitchell - Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office) (Minister for Development)

The UK continues to take a strong stance against settler violence and urges Israel to take stronger action to stop settler violence and hold the perpetrators accountable. As noted, we will prevent those responsible for settler violence in the West Bank from entering the UK.


Lords Chamber
Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill
2nd reading - Tue 20 Feb 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (Con - Life peer) divestment campaigns against foreign countries and territories that are inconsistent with the legal sanctions - Speech Link
2: Baroness Chapman of Darlington (Lab - Life peer) We do not support boycott, divestment and sanctions campaigns towards Israel—they wrongly single out - Speech Link
3: Lord Verdirame (Non-affiliated - Life peer) , embargoes or restrictions, there should be no scope for a regime of trade sanctions or embargoes to - Speech Link
4: Baroness Kennedy of Shaws (Lab - Life peer) The Global Human Rights Sanctions Regulations 2020 introduced a very tough sanctions regime in the Magnitsky - Speech Link


Written Question
Tucker Carlson
Monday 19th February 2024

Asked by: Neil Coyle (Labour - Bermondsey and Old Southwark)

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, if he will make it his policy to impose Magnitsky sanctions against Tucker Carlson.

Answered by Anne-Marie Trevelyan - Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)

The FCDO uses the Magnitsky sanctions regimes to designate those responsible for serious human rights violations and abuses and serious corruption. It is a longstanding policy that we do not comment on future sanctions designations.


Commons Chamber
Death of Alexei Navalny - Mon 19 Feb 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Stephen Doughty (LAB - Cardiff South and Penarth) invasion of Ukraine, so will he strengthen not just our sanctions regime but how those sanctions are - Speech Link
2: Leo Docherty (Con - Aldershot) We do have a laser-like focus on the economic impact of our sanctions in the round. - Speech Link
3: Alyn Smith (SNP - Stirling) assure us that the UK will be part of those efforts, in particular with regard to the implementation of Magnitsky - Speech Link
4: Ian Blackford (SNP - Ross, Skye and Lochaber) Friend the Member for Stirling (Alyn Smith) mentioned Magnitsky sanctions, and we need to act now. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Death of Alexei Navalny - Mon 19 Feb 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) The global human rights sanctions regime allows immediate and rapid designation. - Speech Link
2: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Con - Life peer) our trade sanctions. - Speech Link
3: Lord Howell of Guildford (Con - Life peer) for his very clear support.What has happened to Alexei Navalny is the same as what happened to Sergei Magnitsky - Speech Link
4: Baroness Falkner of Margravine (XB - Life peer) We recall this list of names: Sergei Magnitsky, Boris Nemtsov, and now Alexei Navalny. - Speech Link