On 13 October 2025, HM Treasury (HMT) published guidance to help industry prepare to use the UK Sanctions List (UKSL) as the source for UK sanctions designations once the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) Consolidated List of Asset Freeze Targets closes.

Background

HMT explains that UK sanctions designations are currently detailed in two lists, the UKSL, published by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office and the Consolidated List of Asset Freeze Targets, published for HM Treasury by OFSI, but that the publication of sanctions lists by the UK government is changing on Wednesday 28 January 2026.

Summary

HMT set out that a cross-government review of sanctions implementation and enforcement announced earlier this year that the UK will be moving to having a single list for all UK sanctions designations. As a result, the UKSL will be the only sanctions list which details sanctions designations published by the UK government. The OFSI Consolidated List and its search tool will no longer be updated from this date. 

Next steps

HMT highlights that business and industry will need to ensure that any systems that use the OFSI Consolidated List for sanctions screening purposes are instead using the data from the UKSL.