Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of trends in the level of defence budgets in the last 10 years.

The recent increase in defence spending is the largest sustained increase since the end of the Cold War.

The Government is firmly committed to increasing defence spending to reach 2.6% of GDP by 2027 and has set an ambition to reach 3% by 2030, as fiscal and economic conditions allow. The Ministry of Defence (MOD) has also made a historic commitment to spend 5% of GDP on national security. This is a generational increase in defence and security spending, honouring our commitment to be a leader in NATO.

The Department publishes historic MOD spending in cash and real terms in its annual Departmental Resources publication.