Question follow-through · 56143
Defence: Finance
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much funding has been transferred from the aid budget to the defence budget.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 2 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 4 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 10 Jun 2025 · 8 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
2 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much funding has been transferred from the aid budget to the defence budget.
4 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Jun 2025
Answer published
In February this year, the Prime Minister announced that NATO qualifying defence spending will increase to 2.5% GDP by 2027-28. It will be fully funded by reducing Official Development Assistance (ODA) from 0.5% to 0.3% GNI by the same year. Further detai...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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