Question follow-through · 2420
Defence: Expenditure
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 24 July 2024 to Question 149 on Defence: Expenditure, whether the future fiscal event will cover the potential impact of the Department’s timetable for reaching expenditure of 2.5% of GD
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Defence
- Tabled
- 30 Jul 2024
- Target answer date
- 2 Sept 2024
- Answer
- 5 Sept 2024 · 37 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Opposition Day Motion: Defence spending and readiness - Prime Minister's Amendment · 23 Jun 2026
- Opposition day: Defence spending and readiness · 23 Jun 2026
- Armed Forces Bill Report Stage: Amendment 11 · 22 Jun 2026
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Recorded timeline
30 Jul 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 24 July 2024 to Question 149 on Defence: Expenditure, whether the future fiscal event will cover the potential impact of the Department’s timetable for reaching expenditure of 2.5% of GD
2 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Sept 2024
Answer published
The pathway to 2.5% will set the overall envelope for Defence spending. Funding for specific programmes is considered as part of the Department’s annual budget setting process.
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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