Written Question·Treasury·UIN 62627

Defence: Finance

Tabled: 25 June 2025
Answered: 30 June 2025
Named Day

Question

James Cartlidge

Conservative — South Suffolk

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what her planned timetable is for setting out how the UK will fund GDP on defence expenditure of (a) 3 percent in the next Parliament and (b) 3.5 percent by the Parliament after next.

Answer

Darren Jones
As confirmed in the Spending Review 2025, this government has a fully funded path to reaching 2.6% NATO qualifying defence spending by 2027, with an ambition to reach 3% by the end of the next parliament, when fiscal and economic conditions allow. We will...
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