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Written Question
Defence: Expenditure
Tuesday 21st July 2015

Asked by: Lord Robertson of Port Ellen (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether elements of defence-related intelligence have been added to the defence budget.

Answered by Earl Howe - Shadow Deputy Leader of the House of Lords

No security and intelligence agency funding has been added to the defence budget, apart from routine transfers which are published in main and supplementary estimates.

The funding for the Defence Intelligence organisation remains funded from the defence budget.

As confirmed in the Summer Budget, the Government is committed to meeting the properly- measured NATO pledge to spend 2% of national income on defence every year of this decade. This will include public spending that supports the Ministry of Defence and the contribution made by the secret intelligence agencies.

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