Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate he has made of the level of defence inflation for each year in the current spending review period.
In the first year of the current spending review period, defence inflation, which is the average change in pay and prices of goods and services that make up the defence budget, is estimated to have been 4.1% in 2020-21. The Department does not forecast future levels of defence inflation, as key factors such as pay inflation and contract inflation are subject to high levels of uncertainty.