Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he plans to announce his plans to increase defence spending to 3% of GDP (a) before or (b) after the next NATO threat and capability review.

The Government has already committed to spending 3% of GDP in the next parliament, when fiscal and economic conditions allow.

Furthermore, in June last year the UK made a historic commitment to spend 5% of GDP on core defence and national security by 2035.