Defence: Finance

(asked on 25th June 2025) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she plans to (a) amend and (b) review the definitions of (i) defence and (ii) national security spending, for the purposes of (A) statistical and (B) NATO targets.


Answered by
Darren Jones Portrait
Darren Jones
Chief Secretary to the Treasury
This question was answered on 3rd July 2025

NATO has a common definition of defence expenditure which is agreed by all NATO Allies. A full definition can be found here:

https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/topics_49198.htm

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