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1719882

registered interest
date	21/05/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Defence: Finance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether their commitment to spend 2.5 per cent of gross domestic product on defence by 2030 has been incorporated into the Treasury’s baseline budgets.
tabling member printed	Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent
uin	HL4805
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2024 answer text <p>The Prime Minister recently set out our pledge: to increase defence spending to 2.5% of GDP by 2030. That increase starts immediately, rising each year, and will see defence spending rise to £87 billion a year by 2030/31. This is the biggest strengthening of our defence since the Cold War.</p><p>The commitment will be fully funded, with no increases in borrowing or debt.</p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 24/05/2024 11:45:12 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
tabling member	4508 label Biography information for Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent

1719338

registered interest
date	20/05/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Defence: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will use the £9.2 billion of reserves in resource funding to increase defence funding for 2024-25.
tabling member constituency	Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey
tabling member printed	Drew Hendry
uin	27102
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2024 answer text <p>The Prime Minister recently set out our pledge: to increase defence spending to 2.5% of GDP by 2030. That increase starts immediately, rising each year, and will see defence spending rise to £87 billion a year by 2030/31.</p><p> </p><p>This is the biggest strengthening of our defence since the Cold War, ensuring we remain by far the largest defence power in Europe. It will protect our homeland security, cements our UK leadership in NATO and create jobs in the UK.</p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Laura Trott grouped question UIN 27103 question first answered 23/05/2024 15:42:23 answering member 4780 label Biography information for Laura Trott
tabling member	4467 label Biography information for Drew Hendry

1719339

registered interest
date	20/05/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Defence: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will use the £1.8 billion of reserves in capital funding to increase defence funding for 2024-25.
tabling member constituency	Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey
tabling member printed	Drew Hendry
uin	27103
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2024 answer text <p>The Prime Minister recently set out our pledge: to increase defence spending to 2.5% of GDP by 2030. That increase starts immediately, rising each year, and will see defence spending rise to £87 billion a year by 2030/31.</p><p> </p><p>This is the biggest strengthening of our defence since the Cold War, ensuring we remain by far the largest defence power in Europe. It will protect our homeland security, cements our UK leadership in NATO and create jobs in the UK.</p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Laura Trott grouped question UIN 27102 question first answered 23/05/2024 15:42:23 answering member 4780 label Biography information for Laura Trott
tabling member	4467 label Biography information for Drew Hendry

1714523

registered interest
date	29/04/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Defence: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Prime Minister’s speech in Warsaw on 23 April 2024, whether his Department has (a) conducted an assessment of costings and (b) developed proposals for how to fund the commitment to spend 2.5% of gross domestic product on defence by 2030.
tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
tabling member printed	John Healey
uin	23982
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2024 answer text <p>We have made a commitment to steadily increase defence spending, reaching 2.5% of GDP in 2030. We have also set out how we are fully funding this increase in defence spending.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Laura Trott grouped question UIN 23991 question first answered 02/05/2024 14:39:02 answering member 4780 label Biography information for Laura Trott
tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

1714726

registered interest
date	29/04/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Defence: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Prime Minister’s speech in Warsaw on 23 April 2024, whether the commitment to spend 2.5% of gross domestic product on defence by 2030 will be require additional funding streams other than through reductions to (a) the civil service and (b) research and development budgets.
tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
tabling member printed	John Healey
uin	23991
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2024 answer text <p>We have made a commitment to steadily increase defence spending, reaching 2.5% of GDP in 2030. We have also set out how we are fully funding this increase in defence spending.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Laura Trott grouped question UIN 23982 question first answered 02/05/2024 14:39:02 answering member 4780 label Biography information for Laura Trott
tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

1713727

registered interest
date	24/04/2024
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Defence: Finance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what percentage of GDP will be spent on defence in each financial year between now and 2030.
tabling member printed	Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton
uin	HL4077
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2024 answer text <p>As detailed in Annex A of the Government’s publication “<em>Defending Britain: leading in a more dangerous world</em>”, the UK’s qualifying defence spend as a percentage of GDP up to 2030-31 is below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2024-25</p></td><td><p>2025-26</p></td><td><p>2026-27</p></td><td><p>2027-28</p></td><td><p>2028-29</p></td><td><p>2029-30</p></td><td><p>2030-31</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>% of GDP</p></td><td><p>2.32</p></td><td><p>2.35</p></td><td><p>2.38</p></td><td><p>2.41</p></td><td><p>2.44</p></td><td><p>2.47</p></td><td><p>2.5</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member printed The Earl of Minto question first answered 09/05/2024 15:19:27 answering member 4952 label Biography information for The Earl of Minto
tabling member	1544 label Biography information for Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton

1700274

registered interest
date	12/04/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Defence: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what (a) fiscal and (b) economic conditions have to be met for defence spending to be raised to 2.5% of Gross Domestic Product.
tabling member constituency	Wells
tabling member printed	James Heappey
uin	21171
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/04/2024 answer text <p>The government’s aspiration is to invest 2.5% of GDP on defence, when the fiscal and economic circumstances allow. The Prime Minister has been clear that the target and path towards 2.5% will be set out at the next Spending Review.</p><p>The government has consistently prioritised defence spending. The Ministry of Defence was the first department to get certainty on its budgets in this Parliament. This settlement was the largest sustained spending increase in defence since the end of the Cold War, with a £24 billion uplift in cash terms over the four-year period. In March 2023, we also provided an extra £11 billion for defence and national security priorities over the next five years, with £4.95 billion over the next two years.</p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Laura Trott question first answered 17/04/2024 10:54:11 answering member 4780 label Biography information for Laura Trott
tabling member	4528 label Biography information for James Heappey

1697190

registered interest
date	19/03/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Defence: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of when defence spending will reach 2.5% of GDP; whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of raising defence spending to 3% of GDP; and if he will have discussions with the Leader of the House on finding time to debate the Early Day Motion in the name of the hon. Member for Clacton, number 455, on Future defence spending.
tabling member constituency	Clacton
tabling member printed	Giles Watling
uin	19462
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2024 answer text <p>The government has consistently prioritised defence spending. The Ministry of Defence was the first department to get certainty on its budgets in this Parliament. This settlement was the largest sustained spending increase in defence since the end of the Cold War, with a £24 billion uplift in cash terms over the four-year period. In March 2023, we also provided an extra £11 billion for defence and national security priorities over the next five years, with £4.95 billion over the next two years.</p><p> </p><p>The government’s aspiration over the longer-term is to invest 2.5% of GDP on defence, when the fiscal and economic circumstances allow.</p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Laura Trott question first answered 27/03/2024 17:04:12 answering member 4780 label Biography information for Laura Trott
tabling member	4677 label Biography information for Giles Watling

1696239

registered interest
date	14/03/2024
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Defence: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of his Department's budget for its military capability requirements.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	18788
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2024 answer text <p>UK defence spending is at its highest level in history and is increasing in real terms. Over the next decade we have increased the budget for our Equipment Plan to £288.6 billion and we have set out our longer-term aspiration to invest 2.5% of GDP on defence when the fiscal and economic circumstances allow.</p><p>We continue to meet all operational commitments, including participating in every single NATO mission and tackling Houthi attacks on shipping in the Red Sea.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Suffolk answering member printed James Cartlidge question first answered 22/03/2024 14:56:06 answering member 4519 label Biography information for James Cartlidge
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1686083

registered interest
date	30/01/2024
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Defence: Finance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government when they expect to achieve their stated ambition to increase defence spending to 2.5 per cent of gross domestic product; and what investment they are making in new areas of defence technology.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL2017
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/02/2024 answer text <p>The Government has set its aspiration for defence spending to reach 2.5% of GDP as soon as fiscal and economic circumstances allow.</p><p> </p><p>Over the current Spending Review period we will be investing at least £6.6 billion in Research and Development, working closely with UK industry and academia to ensure we are developing the technologies and capabilities Defence needs now and in the future.</p> answering member printed The Earl of Minto question first answered 13/02/2024 16:33:52 answering member 4952 label Biography information for The Earl of Minto
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool