Written questions

Defence: Expenditure

2026-06-15 · Ministry of Defence · 10462 · Official question

Ben Obese-Jecty

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the size of the defence budget deficit was in 2010-11.

Answer

In their report of 21 July 2010, the NAO estimated that the shortfall between the estimated defence budget and the forward defence spending programme was between £6 billion and £36 billion over 10 years, depending on the budget assumptions used.