Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps the Government is taking to help ensure that Russian oil does not enter the UK after 5 December 2022 by being incorrectly marked as oil from elsewhere.

Enforcement of trade sanctions is achieved through a combination of awareness, export and import licencing, intelligence, electronic targeting measures and enforcement activity.

Commercial goods such as oil are required to be presented and declared to Customs on import before they enter the domestic market.

Information collected by Customs, together with Border Force intelligence, is used to risk assess movements for checks and clearance. Customs checks can be performed on the accompanying commercial and other documentation the importer may have to prove the origin of the goods.

The Government recently published guidance on the ban which sets out further detail.