Oral Question·Department for International Trade
“What progress the Board of Trade has made on its work programme.”
Tabled: 10 September 2018Answered: 13 September 2018
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for International Trade
Answer from Hansard
The Secretary of State for Defence (John Healey)
This summer, the UK joined all other 31 NATO nations in agreeing the new NATO benchmark of 5% spending on national security by 2035. That followed this Government’s announcement of the largest sustained increase in defence spending since the end of the cold war.