Question follow-through · 66590
Defence: Expenditure
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 10 July 2025 to Question 65293 on Defence: Finance, if she will publish the percentage of GDP spent on defence for each financial year since 2018/2019.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 10 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 15 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 15 Jul 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Defence and foreign affairs
- Defence: Finance · 15 Jul 2025
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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
10 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 10 July 2025 to Question 65293 on Defence: Finance, if she will publish the percentage of GDP spent on defence for each financial year since 2018/2019.
15 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 Jul 2025
Answer published
Historic NATO qualifying defence spend as a percentage of GDP is published on the NATO website: 240617-def-exp-2024-en.pdf
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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