Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to his Oral Statement of 24 April 2024, Official Report, column 939, if he will publish details of how his Department's increase in spending will be funded.

The uplift will be funded by providing Defence with a greater share of the Government's overall R&D budget, and by reducing headcount in the Civil Service to pre-pandemic levels by 2029-30.