Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether the Government is taking steps to degrade Russian influence in other nations obtained through the services those nations have procured from the Wagner Group.

The Prime Minister and other leaders have agreed to work in unity to maximise the economic price that Putin will pay for his aggression. On 24 February, the UK announced the largest and most severe package of economic sanctions that Russia has ever seen. It sent a clear message that the UK will use its economic heft to inflict pain on Russia and degrade its strategic interests.