Defence: Expenditure
Lords · Question HL8850 · Tabled 25 Jun 2025 · Ministry of Defence · Official record
Answered 18 Jul 2025
Question
Asked by Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown
To ask His Majesty's Government how much it would cost to increase defence spending to 5 per cent of gross domestic product.
Answer
Answered by Lord Coaker, 18 Jul 2025
Under current plans the Government is expected to spend 2.6% of GDP on defence and national security by April 2027, the biggest sustained increase since the end of the Cold War. At the NATO Summit, we made the historic commitment to spend 5% of GDP on nat...