Consultation outcome

Public consultation on the United Kingdom’s future legal framework for imposing and implementing sanctions

• From: Foreign & Commonwealth Office, HM Treasury and Department for International Trade
• Published: 21 April 2017
• Last updated: 2 August 2017 — See all updates

This was published under the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government

This consultation has concluded

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Public consultation on the United Kingdom’s future legal framework for imposing and implementing sanctions: government response

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Detail of outcome

We received and reviewed 34 public responses to this consultation. Read the government response for full details.

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Original consultation

Summary

The Government is seeking views on the legal powers needed to continue to be able to impose and implement sanctions upon the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union.

This consultation ran from
11:30am on 21 April 2017 to 11:45pm on 23 June 2017

Consultation description

Sanctions are an important foreign policy and national security tool. As a permanent member of the UN Security Council the UK plays a leading role in negotiating sanctions with global reach to counter threats to international peace and security.

The UK currently implements UN and other multilateral sanctions regimes through EU legal acts. Once we leave the EU, we will need new legal powers to maintain our ability to impose, implement and amend sanctions regimes.

We welcome feedback from all stakeholders to help inform the design of the UK’s future sanctions legal framework.

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Public consultation on the United Kingdom’s future legal framework for imposing and implementing sanctions (PDF version)

Ref: ISBN 9781474141499, Cm. 9408

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Public consultation on the United Kingdom’s future legal framework for imposing and implementing sanctions (Web PDF version)

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Published 21 April 2017
Last updated 2 August 2017 + show all updates

1. 2 August 2017

   Government response published

2. 21 April 2017

   First published.