Written Question·Ministry of Defence·UIN 33438

Armed Forces: Security

Tabled: 25 February 2025
Answered: 5 March 2025

Question

Jim Shannon

Democratic Unionist Party — Strangford

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department is taking to improve military security.

Answer

Luke Pollard
This Government announced the biggest sustained increase in defence spending since the end of the Cold War, reaching 2.5% of GDP from April 2027, and setting a clear ambition for defence spending to rise to 3% in the next Parliament. The Strategic Defence...
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