Defence: Expenditure
(asked on 25th June 2025) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask His Majesty's Government how much it would cost to increase defence spending to 5 per cent of gross domestic product.
This question was answered on 18th July 2025
Under current plans the Government is expected to spend 2.6% of GDP on defence and national security by April 2027, the biggest sustained increase since the end of the Cold War. At the NATO Summit, we made the historic commitment to spend 5% of GDP on national security by 2035, including 3.5% on core defence. This will be fully funded with details set out in due course.