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Lord Wallace of Saltaire (LD)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 17 December 2024

Debate

Defence: 2.5% GDP Spending Commitment

Contribution

My Lords, if the strategic defence review recommends and the Government accept that we need to spend more on defence because of the deteriorating international environment, can the Minister assure us that the additional spending will be taken out of additional taxation and not out of cuts to domestic programmes such as education, prisons and local government, and that the Government will come clean to the public that this is what they are doing and therefore, the additional taxation will be necessary?

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