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True value of UK arms trade to Saudi Arabia worth over £20 billion since 2015, finds CAAT
Campaigners from Amnesty International carrying a batch of five giant dummy missiles to Downing Street in London in 2016

BRITAIN sold over £20 billion worth of arms to Saudi Arabia during its war in Yemen, with the figure almost three times higher than the government’s records, anti-arms campaigners revealed today.

A new report by the Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) calculated that the sale figures of military equipment and services to the kingdom since 2015 by focusing on the use of open licences.

Open licences allow an unlimited quantity of arms to be exported without the total volume of exports or value of sales being reported.

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