Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 26 May 2026 to Question 1715, if she will make an estimate of the number of oil tankers required annually to transport Russian crude oil used in the production of jet fuel to third countries, then imported to the UK in the context of changes to planned sanctions, including vessels identified as part of the Russian shadow fleet.

No such estimate is readily available, but as I said during our last session of departmental oral questions on 21 April, the collective sanctions action on a range of individuals and entities, across a wide range of economic sectors, taken by the UK and our international partners has denied Russia access to an estimated $450 billion in revenues since the start of the current conflict in 2022.

The UK has led international efforts to disrupt Russia's shadow fleet which, by some estimates, Putin spent over $14 billion to establish. The UK has now specified 594 vessels under the Russia sanctions regime, including 567 oil tankers and 18 liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers.