Question follow-through · 36439
Defence: Expenditure
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Prime Minister’s Oral Statement of 25 February 2025 on Defence and Security, whether she plans to hold any of the announced uplift to defence spending as a reserve.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 7 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 12 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 12 Mar 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
7 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Prime Minister’s Oral Statement of 25 February 2025 on Defence and Security, whether she plans to hold any of the announced uplift to defence spending as a reserve.
12 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Mar 2025
Answer published
On 25 February 2025 the Prime Minister announced that NATO qualifying defence spending will increase to 2.5% GDP by 2027-28. Final budgets for departments for the Spending Review period will be announced on 11 June 2025.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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