Question follow-through · 23386
Defence: Expenditure
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he has reached agreement with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the financial year when defence spending will reach 2.5% of GDP.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Defence
- Tabled
- 13 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 16 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 16 Jan 2025 · 3 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
13 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he has reached agreement with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the financial year when defence spending will reach 2.5% of GDP.
16 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Jan 2025
Answer published
The Government is committed to setting a path to spend 2.5% of GDP on defence in the spring and the Department engages regularly with His Majesty's Treasury on the issue.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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