Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Office, if he will published the assessments his Department has made of the effectiveness of (a) UN and (b) EU sanctions against (i) individuals, (ii) corporations and (iii) other entities.

The Government regularly monitors the effectiveness of its sanctions regimes. Annual reports from the UN Security Council and from the regime-specific UN Panel of Experts assess the impact of sanctions. These documents are available to the public on the UN sanctions website. The Government conducts annual reviews of EU sanctions to ensure that they remain effective and sound. The reviews conducted by the Government are not published and there are no plans to do so.

As drafted, the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Bill, which is going through Parliament, will place a duty on the Government to review each sanctions regime annually to ensure that it remains appropriate for its stated purpose. This report will then be laid in Parliament and made publicly available.