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Lord Coaker (Lab)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 15 June 2026

Debate

Defence Investment Plan

Contribution

No, is the answer to the last part of the noble Lord’s question. We are still spending a significant sum of money with respect to aid and development. The DIP does require a reprioritisation of resources, and that is what we are looking at currently, including ensuring that we get the resources needed to do that within an affordable framework. On the aid and development he talks about, the change to the priorities of the Government a year or so ago has led already to billions of pounds of additional money being added to the defence budget. Money has to come from somewhere. One of the biggest state development programmes you can have is to create security in various countries of the world which see conflict at the moment.

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