Oral Question·Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
“What steps his Department is taking to increase economic sanctions on Russia.”
Tabled: 26 August 2025Answered: 2 September 2025
Asked by
Cameron Thomas
Independent — Tewkesbury
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs
Answer from Hansard
The Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs (Mr David Lammy)
Until Putin stops his barbaric assault, we will keep tightening the screws on his war machine with even more sanctions. Since coming to office we have sanctioned more than 680 individual entities and ships, more than double the number of designations made in 2023.