An analysis of information, policy developments, and cases of concern relating to UK arms exports in 2023.

On 2 September, the UK government announced that it was suspending around 30 arms export sales to Israel, covering equipment that was due to go to the Israeli military, and that the government assessed were for use in Gaza. However, it exempted components for Israel's F-35 aircraft that are used to bomb Gaza, from the

Arms and the state: How the arms industry influences government in western arms producing nations examines how arms industry influence manifests across different countries, including the US, UK, France, Australia, and the European Union, highlighting varying pathways of influence shaped by each nation’s political system and regulatory landscape.

Case study of military research activities at Sheffield University, including partnerships with the UK military and major arms companies. Follows on from CAAT and dED_ucation's earlier report "Weaponising Universities".

Case study of military research activities at Strathclyde University, including partnerships with the UK military and major arms companies. Follows on from CAAT and dED_ucation's earlier report "Weaponising Universities".

This report, published by Campaign Against Arms Trade and World Peace Foundation, details the ways in which the arms industry influences government policy, and how it has gained such a close relationship with government over the years that the lines between the two have been virtually erased.

This report discusses the deepening ties between universities in the UK and the arms industry and military research, which include arms industry-funded research on campus, dedicated research centres sponsored by the arms industry and/or the MOD and other parts of the UK security establishment, and other ties.

An analysis of information, policy developments, and cases of concern relating to UK arms exports in 2022

A report on UK arms exports in 2021, analysing all the publicly available sources of data.

Despite widespread myths that the British police are unarmed and govern through consent, paramilitary-style policing has a long and ugly history in the UK and across the British Empire. This report looks at the increasingly blurry line between the police and military and the role of the UK in militarised policing globally.

The UK's secretive open licence system obscures the true level of the UK arms trade, and eases arms sales to repressive regimes and countries in conflict.

This report examines the arms export practices of the top 11 arms exporters worldwide in relation to countries involved in conflict. It finds that there is no evidence of conflict acting as an impediment to arms sales by any of the eleven countries.