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UIN 907099

Defence: Expenditure

answeredUnited Kingdom· UK Parliament· EN

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1 November 2016

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7 November 2016 · Answer

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7 November 2016

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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the Government plans to maintain its NATO commitment to spend 2 per cent of GDP on defence.

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  1. 1 November 2016

    Written question

    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the Government plans to maintain its NATO commitment to spend 2 per cent of GDP on defence.

    Source: Commons

  2. 7 November 2016

    Answer

    Yes. The UK faces complex and challenging international and domestic security threats, which is why we have committed to spending 2% of our GDP on defence every year of this decade.Before this commitment the defence budget (in 2014-15) was £34.4 billion a...

    Source: Written answer

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