As a result tommorow, The Government is to face questions over why a British company was allowed to export two chemicals capable of being used to make a nerve agent such as sarin to Syria.

This comes after the Huffington Post UK revealed on Friday that the UK exported nearly £2.2m in chemicals over the three months of April to June 2013.

Syria received nearly £624,000 in British exports of "machinery and transport equipment" during the same period and just over £200,000 in parts for "nuclear reactors and boilers" over May and June 2013.

British companies were given government licences in January 2012 to export chemicals that could have been used to make nerve gas in Syria, ten months after civil broke out in the country, it was revealed Sunday.

The revelations come at a time when the US and France are pushing for military action against the Assad regime in response to its alleged use of chemical weapons. Britain, however, ruled itself out of taking part in any armed intervention in Syria following a surprise vote against such a move in the House of Commons last week.

Opposition MPs are now calling on the coalition government to explain the decision to sanction the exports.

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