The Department for Business and Trade is responsible for authorising exports of British equipment to foreign states. It holds records on all export applications, issued and rejected licences, and risk evaluations.
Some useful links for additional research:
- Strategic Export Control licencing statistics (for overview of what’s being exported)
- Strategic Export Control licencing list (for understanding what exactly has been exported)
Freedom of Information responses and data
How I’ve used some of this data in previous reporting: