Defence: Finance

(asked on 28th November 2025) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to her Oral Statement on 26 March 2025 entitled Spring Statement, Official Report, whether it remains government policy to spend 3% of GDP on defence in the next Parliament.


Answered by
James Murray Portrait
James Murray
Chief Secretary to the Treasury
This question was answered on 3rd December 2025

The Government’s ambition remains to spend 3 per cent of GDP on defence when economic and fiscal conditions allow.

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