Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether the Government plans to impose sanctions on the (a) President and (b) Foreign Minister of Russia.

We have imposed sanctions on President Putin, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, major Russian banks and more than 100 companies and oligarchs at the heart of Putin's regime, and Belarus.

The new sanctions, which are targeted personally at Putin and Lavrov, will see any UK-based assets frozen immediately and UK companies will be barred from providing goods, services or assets to them in future.