Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what information his Department holds on trends in the level of financial support provided by Iran to the Hizballah organisation in the last six months.

The UK Government regularly assesses Iran's political, financial and military support to several militant and proscribed groups, including Hezbollah. Such activity compromises the region's security and Iran must bear responsibility for the actions of the groups it has long supported. We currently sanction more than 350 Iranian individuals and entities, including the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps in its entirety. As the former Foreign Secretary announced, a new sanctions regime will be in place by the end of the year, giving greater powers to make designations for destabilising Iranian activity in the region.