Oral Question·Cabinet Office
“What progress the Government has made on ensuring regional equality of economic opportunity.”
Tabled: 24 September 2020Answered: 1 October 2020
Asked by
Matt Vickers
Conservative — Stockton West
Answering Minister
the Minister for the Cabinet Office
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.