Defence: Finance

Summary

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the impact of the additional £32 billion required to meet the pledge to spend 3.5% of GDP identified by the Office for Budget Responsibility in its 2025 Economic Financial Outlook.

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1. 1 December 2025

   Written question

   To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the impact of the additional £32 billion required to meet the pledge to spend 3.5% of GDP identified by the Office for Budget Responsibility in its 2025 Economic Financial Outlook.

   Source: Commons

2. 4 December 2025

   Answer

   We are set to spend 2.6 percent of GDP on defence spending in 2027, with an ambition to spend 3 percent of GDP on defence next Parliament when economic and fiscal conditions allow. The Government is also committed to hitting a headline ambition of 5 perce...

   Source: Written answer

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