Official Statistics

Table showing items licensed for export after reference to expert advisers for advice as to national importance: 1 May 2010 to 30 April 2011

Updated 15 November 2011
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Items licensed for export after reference to expert advisers for advice as to national importance: 1 May 2010 - 30 April 2011.
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Category Advising authority No of Items Total value (£)
Arms and armour Royal Armouries, Leeds, Associate Director 21 7,391,586
Books, maps etc British Library, Keeper of Printed Books, Head of Map Collections 44 8,070,638
Books (natural history) Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Head of Library and Archives 6 23,830,712
Clocks and watches British Museum, Keeper of Clocks and Watches 33 5,389,430
Coins and medals British Museum, Keeper of Coins and Medals 267 8,158,645
Drawings: architectural, engineering and scientific Victoria & Albert Museum, Keeper of Word & Image Department 19 816,900
Drawings, prints, water-colours British Museum, Keeper of Prints and Drawings 367 154,352,501
Egyptian antiquities British Museum, Keeper of Egyptian Antiquities 1,869 25,856,637
Ethnography British Museum, Keeper of Ethnography 18 28,239,943
Furniture and woodwork Victoria & Albert Museum, Keeper of Furniture and Textiles & Fashion Department 186 36,860,953
Greek and Roman antiquities British Museum, Keeper of Greek and Roman Antiquities 9 2,443,397
Indian furniture Victoria & Albert Museum, Senior Curator of Asian Department, South & South East Asian Collection 0 -
Japanese antiquities British Museum, Department of Asia 15 1,591,063
Manuscripts, documents and archives British Library, Curator, Department of Manuscripts 3,213 71,194,091
Maritime material, including paintings National Maritime Museum, Director of Collections 2 73,645
Oriental antiquities (except Japanese) British Museum, Department of Asia 182 64,184,671
Oriental furniture Victoria & Albert Museum, Senior Curator of Asian Department, Chinese Collection 5 1,042,871
Paintings, British, modern Tate Gallery 166 335,327,176
Paintings, foreign National Gallery, Director 216 510,022,639
Paintings, miniature Victoria & Albert Museum, 1 32,500
Not set Senior Curator of Painting Section, Word & Image Department Not set Not set
Paintings, portraits of British persons National Portrait Gallery, Director 37 53,507,900
Photographs National Media Museum, Head 45 3,266,173
Pottery Victoria & Albert Museum, Head of Ceramics & Glass Department 33 6,051,267
Prehistory & Europe (inc. Archaeological material, Medieval and later antiquities & Metal Detecting Finds) British Museum, Keeper of Prehistory & Europe Department of Portable Antiquities & Treasure (Metal Detecting Finds) 12,564 3,992,317
Scientific and mechanical material Science Museum, Head of Collections 12 2,800,000
Sculpture Victoria & Albert Museum, Senior Curator of Sculpture, Metalwork, Ceramic & Glass Department, Tate Gallery (20th Century Sculpture) 94 39,014,097
Silver and weapons, Scottish National Museum of Scotland, Director 0 -
Silver, metalwork and jewellery Victoria & Albert Museum, Senior Curator of Sculpture, Metalwork, Ceramic & Glass Department 160 47,461,010
Tapestries, carpets (and textiles) Victoria & Albert Museum, 56 25,979,488
Not set Senior Curator of Furniture, Textiles & Fashion Department Not set Not set
Toys Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood, Head 1 100,000
Transport Heritage Motor Centre 28 16,720,572
Wallpaper Victoria & Albert Museum, Senior Curator of Prints Section, Word & Image Department 0 -
Western Asiatic antiquities British Museum, Keeper of Ethnography 15 3,193,267
Zoology (stuffed specimens) Natural History Museum, Director of Science 2 163,667
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Totals Not set 19,686 1,487,129,756