Defence: Finance

(asked on 4th December 2025) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what percentage of GDP will be spent on the MOD budget in the financial year that NATO declared defence spending will increase to 3 per cent of GDP.


Answered by
James Murray Portrait
James Murray
Chief Secretary to the Treasury
This question was answered on 9th December 2025

We are set to spend 2.6 percent of GDP on defence spending in 2027, with an ambition to spend 3 percent of GDP on defence next Parliament when economic and fiscal conditions allow.

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