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Debate between Wendy Chamberlain and Victoria Collins
Monday 1st June 2026

(1 week, 5 days ago)

Commons Chamber
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Wendy Chamberlain Portrait Wendy Chamberlain (North East Fife) (LD)
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8. If he will take steps with the Chancellor of the Exchequer to issue defence bonds to help increase funding for military capabilities.

Victoria Collins Portrait Victoria Collins (Harpenden and Berkhamsted) (LD)
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14. If he will take steps with the Chancellor of the Exchequer to issue defence bonds to help increase funding for military capabilities.

John Healey Portrait The Secretary of State for Defence (John Healey)
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This Government are making the biggest increase in defence investment since the end of the cold war. This year alone, we have more than £11 billion more in the defence budget than in the last year of the previous Government. As the Prime Minister said in February,

“we are going to have to spend more faster”,

and we will.

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