Question follow-through · 24456
Defence: Expenditure
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 14 January 2024 to Question 22961 on Defence: Expenditure, whether the future fiscal event will take place before June 2025.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 16 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 21 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 21 Jan 2025 · 5 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
16 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 14 January 2024 to Question 22961 on Defence: Expenditure, whether the future fiscal event will take place before June 2025.
21 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 Jan 2025
Answer published
Government set out in Autumn Budget 2024 that it will set a path to spending 2.5% of GDP at a future fiscal event. The government does not comment on speculation about decisions outside of fiscal events.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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