Defence: Expenditure

(asked on 17th July 2018) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what percentage of GDP they spend on UK defence, excluding pension provisions.


Answered by
Earl Howe Portrait
Earl Howe
Deputy Leader of the House of Lords
This question was answered on 30th July 2018

When the Ministry of Defence's pension expenditure, as reported in accordance with NATO's definitions of defence spending, is removed, the UK's remaining expenditure on defence spending in financial year 2017-18 equalled 1.97% of GDP using the Office for Budget Responsibility's GDP forecast.

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