NATO: Military Exercises
(asked on 18th December 2023) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much funding his Department plans to contribute to NATO training exercises in the (a) 2023-24, (b) 2024-25 and (c) 2025-26 financial year.
On current plans, the Ministry of Defence’s (MOD) contributions to NATO common funding, of which Alliance training and exercising forms a part, are as follows:
£ million | 2019-20 | 2020-21 | 2021-22 | 2022-23 | 2023-24 | 2024-25 | 2025-26 |
UK Share of common funding | 149.4 | 153.2 | 173.9 | 201.1 | 264.0 | 316.6 | 388.1 |
This table shows the UK’s share of common funding, detailing the actual amounts the MOD contributed in Financial Years 2019-20 – 2022-23 and the forecast for 2023-24 and beyond.
The costs associated with UK involvement in NATO training exercises are spread across multiple budgets within Defence and could only be disaggregated from other national exercising costs at disproportionate cost.