Defence: Expenditure
(asked on 6th February 2017) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent estimate he has made of the proportion of gross domestic product spent on defence by each other NATO member state.
This question was answered on 10th February 2017
The information requested is published regularly by NATO. The most recent figures (from July 2016) are in Table 3 of NATO's Press Release Communique
PR/CP(2016)116 of 4 July 2016, which can be found at http://www.nato.int/nato_static_fl2014/assets/pdf/pdf_2016_07/20160704_160704-pr2016-116.pdf
The UK is committed to spend 2% of GDP on defence every year of this decade in accordance with the NATO guidelines.