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NATO: Military Exercises

Question for Ministry of Defence

UIN 7275, tabled on 18 December 2023

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much funding his Department contributed to NATO training exercises in each financial year since 2019-20.

Answered on

12 January 2024

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.