Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what discussions he has had with his NATO counterparts on ensuring that all NATO member states achieve the target of two per cent of GDP spending on defence.

I discuss the pledge with NATO Allies regularly. Most recently I raised this at the October meeting of NATO Defence Ministers - at which the Czech Republic and Norway both confirmed a 10% increase in their budgets. I am confident that, by Warsaw, we will see real progress by other Allies in working to meet NATO's 2% guideline.