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UK Government Sanctions Strategy Papers

Cross-Government Review of Sanctions Implementation and Enforcement

UK Sanctions Strategy – ‘Deter, Disrupt and Demonstrate – UK sanctions in a contested world’

Parliamentary Select Committee Reports on Sanctions

House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee: The UK’s sanctions strategy (inquiry)
- Maya Lester KC Oral Evidence
- Maya Lester KC Written Evidence

House of Commons Treasury Committee: Are the UK’s Russian financial sanctions working? (inquiry)
- Peters & Peters Written Evidence

House of Lords European Affairs Committee: The Ukraine Effect: The impact of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on the UK– EU relationship (January 2024)
- Government response
- Maya Lester KC evidence:
  - Transcript
  - Oral Evidence

House of Lords European Affairs Committee: The future UK-EU relationship (September 2023)
- Government response

House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee: Guns for gold: the Wagner Network exposed (July 2023)
- Government response

House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee: The cost of complacency: illicit finance and the war in Ukraine (June 2022)
- Government response

House of Commons Treasury Committee: Defeating Putin: the development, implementation and impact of economic sanctions on Russia (March 2022)
- Government response

House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee: No prosperity without justice: the UK’s relationship with Iran (December 2020)
- Government response

House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee: Fragmented and Incoherent: the UK’s Sanctions Policy (September 2019)
- Government response
- Maya Lester QC evidence:
  - Transcript
  - Oral Evidence
- Global Sanctions written evidence

House of Commons Treasury Committee: Economic Crime – Anti-money laundering supervision and sanctions implementation (March 2019)
- Government response

House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee: Moscow’s Gold: Russian Corruption in the UK (May 2018)
- Government response

House of Lords European Union Committee: Brexit: sanctions policy (December 2017)
- Government response
- Maya Lester QC evidence:

House of Lords European Union Committee: the Legality of EU Sanctions (February 2017)
- Government response
- Maya Lester QC evidence:

House of Lords External Affairs Sub-Committee: The EU and Russia: before and beyond the crisis in Ukraine (February 2015)

House of Lords Reports on Sanctions

House of Lords: Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (February 2023)

House of Lords: Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Bill (March 2022)

House of Lords report on Sanctions (EU Exit) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 4) Regulations 2020 (June 2021)

House of Lords report on Sanctions (EU Exit) (Consequential Provisions) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (October 2020)

House of Commons Library Briefings on Sanctions

House of Commons: Sanctions against countries supporting Russia’s invasion of Ukraine (January 2025)

House of Commons: Sanctions against Russia (February 2022 to January 2025) (January 2025)

House of Commons: UK arms exports to Israel (January 2025)

House of Commons: The UK’s Overseas Territories and sanctions against Russia (December 2024)

House of Commons: Sanctions, International Law, and Seizing Russian Assets (November 2024)

House of Commons: UK and international response to Houthis in the Red Sea 2024 (March 2024)

House of Commons: Sanctions against Russia (February 2024)

House of Commons: UK arms exports to Israel (February 2024)

House of Commons: Proscribed Terrorist Organisations (January 2024)

House of Commons: Post-conflict reconstruction assistance to Ukraine (June 2023)

House of Commons: UK arms exports: statistics (January 2023)

House of Commons: UK sanctions for human rights abuses and corruption (July 2022)

House of Commons: Countering Russian influence in the UK (April 2022)

House of Commons: UK sanctions against Russia: Arms exports (March 2022)

House of Commons: Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act 2022 (March 2022)

House of Commons: UK’s first post-Brexit sanctions (July 2020)

House of Commons: Magnitsky legislation (July 2020)

House of Commons: The Iran nuclear deal and rising tensions in the Gulf (October 2019)

House of Commons: Sanctions policy and implementation (September 2019)

House of Commons: Spending on sanctions policy and implementation (September 2019)

House of Commons: The future of sanctions (September 2018)

House of Commons – Insight: Do sanctions work? (June 2015)

EU Parliament Briefings on Sanctions

Time to lift the international sanctions on Syria? (February 2025)

Russia’s ‘shadow fleet’: Bringing the threat to light (November 2024)

Directive on the violation of Union restrictive measures (July 2023)

Impact of sanctions on the humanitarian situation in Syria (June 2023)

Russia and the Western Balkans: Geopolitical confrontation, economic influence and political interference (April 2023)

EU sanctions on Russia: Overview, impact, challenges (March 2023)

Towards an EU global sanctions regime for corruption (February 2023)

EU relations with Iran (January 2023)

Sanctions over Ukraine: Impact on Russia (March 2016)

UK Parliamentary Debates on Sanctions

UK Parliamentary Questions on Sanctions

Accessible via Hansard

Sanctions & AML Act Legislative Material

SAMLA Bill – consolidated publications

SAMLA Bill – stages

SAMLA Bill – impact assessment

Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018 – news

Bill 157 EN 2017-19

Legislative Scrutiny

Post-Legislative Scrutiny Memorandum: Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018

Reports

Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Bill 2017-19 – Committee Stage report

Joint Committee on Human Rights Report on the Sanctions and Anti Money Laundering Bill

Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Bill [HL]: Consideration of Commons Amendments

Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Bill [HL]

Briefings

The Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Bill 2017-19 – Research Briefing

Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Bill [HL]: Briefing for Lords Stages

Explanatory Notes

HL Bill 101 Explanatory Notes

HL Bill 69 Explanatory Notes