This report summarises key quantitative and qualitative trends in UK arms exports in 2024, and in the 5-10 year periods up to 2023, using a variety of sources of information, official and otherwise.
It also discusses some of the key issues and concerns relating to the UK arms trade in 2024, namely arms sales to Israel in the context of the genocidal war on Gaza; the government’s push to sell Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft to Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey; and the sale of arms to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in the context of the UAE’s role in arming the genocidal Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia in Sudan. CAAT’s previous annual report on UK arms exports in 2023 was published in March 2025. The report covers 2024 rather than 2025 as some official data for 2024 was not expected until December 2025; in fact, this data, on, the value of arms export contracts signed by UK arms companies, has still not been published and may never be.
