Hi everyone, a quick update regarding our UK Sanctions lists:
From Jan 28, the UK Sanctions List (UKSL) will become the single official UK designations source. The existing HMT/OFSI Consolidated List will no longer be updated.
We’ll merge UK sanctions coverage into a single dataset, ingesting both XML & CSV versions of the data for redundancy. The HMT/OFSI dataset will be deprecated on Jan 28, 2026 (entities only on that list will stop receiving the sanction topic), while historic OFSI Group IDs will be kept for 6 months for reconciliation. New designations will use the UKSL Unique ID.
We recommend replacing all dataset references to gb_hmt_sanctions with gb_fcdo_sanctions no later than January 28th.
You can see the UK government’s guidance on moving to a single list and our changelog for details. Feel free to reply with any questions you may have, or email us at support@opensanctions.org. Thanks!