The UK has issued export licences worth £6.7bn for arms to Saudi Arabia since 2010.
Export licences worth £42m have been granted to 131 British defence manufacturers since 2010, including components for drones, military radars and armoured vehicles.
The Campaign Against the Arms Trade, CAAT, said the UK had granted six licences worth £180,000 to sell teargas to Hong Kong in the past four years, as police stockpiled canisters.
But pensioners are apparently less than grateful for one-off bonuses such as £10 at Christmas, £150 for winter fuel, and the promise of free television licences, worth £104 for those aged over 75.
Documents showed that arms export licences worth £42m have been granted to 130 British defence manufacturers since 2010 to sell Israel military equipment ranging from weapons control and targeting systems to ammunition, drones and armoured vehicles.
What makes it so astonishing is the sheer scale of it, more than 3,000 export licences worth a staggering £12.33 billion, to those on its own official list for abuse.
Data from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills reveals that in the first six months of 2014 the UK granted licences worth £63.2m of arms sales to 18 of the 28 states on its official blacklist, countries about which the Foreign Office has the "most serious wide-ranging human rights concerns".
A total of 251 licences worth at least £132m remained in force, it said.
Responding to questions on a coal scandal involving the illegal allocation of licences worth billions of dollars, he defended his silence on the issue by saying it was "better than thousands of answers".
Consider: the replacement pilots once started cannot easily be reversed, as they test improved ways of providing news, reinforce plurality, and pump in an initial subsidy from the BBC licence fee, worth £40m over two years.
