Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask His Majesty's Government how much of the increased defence expenditure being invested in Scotland referred to by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in her spending review Statement on 11 June (HC Deb col 978) will be spent in Scotland in each of the next three financial years.

The recently published Strategic Defence Review set out a new vision for defence. The Spending Review 2025 sees the Ministry of Defence (MOD) budget grow by £10.9bn in real terms from 2023-24 to 2028-29, allowing the Defence Secretary to start delivering on this new vision. The Defence Secretary will set out the detailed articulation of the new defence programme in the Defence Investment Plan later in the year which will include details of the programme and where we expect money to be spent, which will include programmes in Scotland. This includes an initial investment of £250 million over the next three years to begin the multi-decade multi-billion-pound redevelopment of HM Naval Base Clyde through the ‘Clyde 2070’ programme.