Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Philip Dunne and Mike Kane

Monday 18th April 2016 Commons Chamber

[Mr Dunne]

The hon. Gentleman really needs to read those letters more carefully. The reduction to which he referred related to the in-year spending of the Department, which ended at the beginning of this month. The defence budget for the current year, and for each future year, is going up, and the question that he and his colleagues need to answer is this: why will his party not commit, as our party has, to the 2% NATO commitment?

[Mike Kane (Wythenshawe and Sale East) (Lab)]

5. What assessment he has made of the progress of the international campaign to defeat ISIS/Daesh.