Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what recent assessment her department has made of the potential merits of sanctioning the importation of (a) precious and semi precious stones, gold and silver and (b) products using these materials from (i) Russia and (ii) third party countries where those raw materials were imported from Russia after its invasion of Ukraine.

In coordination with our allies, we are introducing the largest and most severe economic sanctions that Russia has ever faced. We do not speculate on future sanctions.