Defence: Expenditure

(asked on 3rd February 2026) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 2 February to Question 108700 on Strategic Defence Review, if he will publish a breakdown of the £270 billion to be spent on Defence in this Parliament as a percentage of GDP for each remaining year of the current Parliament.


Answered by
Luke Pollard Portrait
Luke Pollard
Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)
This question was answered on 19th February 2026

The annual breakdown of the £270 billion is below:

Year

2025-26

2026-27

2027-28

2028-29

MOD Settlement (TDEL)

62.2

65.5

71

73.5

% of GDP

2.01%

2.03%

2.13%

2.13%

The Government will be spending 2.6% of GDP on defence in 2027.

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