Question follow-through · 43441
Armed Forces: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether capital departmental expenditure by his Department can fund an expansion in the size of the armed forces; and how much and what proportion of the additional defence expenditure announced at the Spring Sta
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Defence
- Tabled
- 2 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 7 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 8 Apr 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Defence and foreign affairs
- Defence: Expenditure · 23 Jan 2026
- Ministry of Defence: Written Questions · 2 Feb 2026
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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
2 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether capital departmental expenditure by his Department can fund an expansion in the size of the armed forces; and how much and what proportion of the additional defence expenditure announced at the Spring Sta
7 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Apr 2025
Answer published
Any expansion in the size of the Armed Forces would predominantly result in an increase to resource spending rather than capital spending. However, the capitalisation of workforce costs directly employed in bringing a capital asset into service is allowed...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Defence: Expenditure
23 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether any of the spending included by the government in its calculation of spending 2.6% of GDP on NATO qualifying defence spending by 2027 includes financial transactions.
Ministry of Defence: Written Questions
2 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when he plans to answer Question 107979 on Defence: Expenditure tabled by the Rt hon. Member for Central Devon on 23 January 2026.