Baroness Coussins
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Baroness Coussins (CB)
My Lords, can the Minister say whether the cost of working towards achieving the objectives set out in the Defence Diplomacy Strategy, published in March, are part of the 3% or whether there is a separate budget for the strategy?
Lord Coaker (Lab)
In the overall MoD budget, there is funding for the defence diplomacy strategy. For example—I know this will be of keen interest to the noble Baroness—the strategy seeks to professionalise the integrated global defence network with better language training and professional training, and that will be funded in the normal way through the MoD budgets. It is an important part of what we do.