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Defence: Reviews

Question for Ministry of Defence

UIN 4233, tabled on 4 September 2024

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will set out the assumed spending envelope for the Strategic Defence Review.

Answered on

9 September 2024

The Strategic Defence Review will determine the roles, capabilities and reforms required by UK Defence to meet the challenges, threats and opportunities of the twenty-first century, as deliverable and affordable within the resources available to Defence within the trajectory to 2.5%. TheTreasury will set out the path to spending 2.5 per cent of GDP on defenceat a future fiscal event.

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