To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what assets held in the UK by (a) Robert Mugabe and (b) other Zanu-PF party officials have been (i) confiscated and (ii) frozen. (162267)

The EU sanctions on Zimbabwe impose, inter alia, an asset freeze on individual members of the Government of Zimbabwe, including Robert Mugabe and all senior figures deemed to be responsible for the misgovernance of Zimbabwe or for human rights abuses.

All funds and economic resources belonging to persons listed under the sanctions are frozen and it is prohibited to make funds or economic resources available, directly or indirectly, to them. To date 43 accounts in the UK have been frozen, amounting to approximately £172,000. The EU sanctions do not provide for the confiscation of funds.