Defence: Expenditure
(asked on 14th July 2014) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will place in the Library a copy of the NATO definition of defence expenditure.
This question was answered on 17th July 2014
NATO defines defence expenditure as payments made by a national Government specifically to meet the needs of its Armed Forces. NATO publishes the defence expenditure of NATO countries regularly on its website;
http://www.nato.int/cps/en/natolive/topics_49198.htm
The published figures represent payments actually made or to be made during the course of the financial year.