Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the answer of 9 September 2026 to Question 20812 on National Security: Expenditure, whether there is a numerical breakdown of spending in 2025-26 by public body that was then assigned to meet the UK’s 1.5% NATO resilience and security target.

The UK has met NATO’s 1.5% defence and security-related spending target, as defined by NATO. NATO’s definition sets out that spend should be to protect our critical infrastructure, defend our networks, ensure our civil preparedness and resilience, unleash innovation and strengthen our defence industrial base.

The UK’s spending total was reported into the NATO International Staff ahead of the NATO Summit in July and was reflected in the press releases from NATO at the Summit. All spending captured as part of the 1.5% is determined through the Spending Review and set out to Parliament via the Estimates process in the usual way.