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Defence: Public Expenditure

Question for Ministry of Defence

UIN 12542, tabled on 1 February 2024

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on when the 2.5% of GDP target for defence spending will be achieved.

Answered on

6 February 2024

I refer the right hon. Member to the answer I gave her on 23 November to Question 2090 and to the reply given on the 27 November 2023 to the right hon. Member for Wentworth and Deane (Mr John Healey) in response to Question 3090.

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