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Defence: Finance

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what percentage of GDP will be spent on the MOD budget in the financial year that NATO declared defence spending will increase to 3 per cent of GDP.

answeredTreasury

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Answering body
Treasury
Tabled
4 Dec 2025
Target answer date
9 Dec 2025
Answer
9 Dec 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 4 Dec 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what percentage of GDP will be spent on the MOD budget in the financial year that NATO declared defence spending will increase to 3 per cent of GDP.

  2. 9 Dec 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 9 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.

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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