International Law: Monitoring

(asked on 23rd October 2026) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department plans to allocate additional resources to monitoring serious violations of international humanitarian law for the purposes of identifying potential designations under the Global Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law Sanctions Regulations 2026.


Answered by
Stephen Doughty Portrait
Stephen Doughty
Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
This question was answered on 2nd November 2026

This Government does not disclose the number of staff working on individual sanctions regimes as to do so could undermine the effectiveness of those regimes.

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