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Defence: Finance

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the impact of the additional £32 billion required to meet the pledge to spend 3.5% of GDP identified by the Office for Budget Responsibility in its 2025 Economic Financial Outlook.

answeredTreasury

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Answering body
Treasury
Tabled
1 Dec 2025
Target answer date
4 Dec 2025
Answer
4 Dec 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 1 Dec 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the impact of the additional £32 billion required to meet the pledge to spend 3.5% of GDP identified by the Office for Budget Responsibility in its 2025 Economic Financial Outlook.

  2. 4 Dec 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 4 Dec 2025

    Answer published

    We are set to spend 2.6 percent of GDP on defence spending in 2027, with an ambition to spend 3 percent of GDP on defence next Parliament when economic and fiscal conditions allow. The Government is also committed to hitting a headline ambition of 5 perce...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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