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Defence: Reviews

Asked by James CartlidgeConservativeMinistry of DefenceTabled Answered 9 September 2024UIN 4233

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will set out the assumed spending envelope for the Strategic Defence Review.

Answered by Luke Pollard

The Strategic Defence Review will determine the roles, capabilities and reforms required by UK Defence to meet the challenges, threats and opportunities of the twenty-first century, as deliverable and affordable within the resources available to Defence within the trajectory to 2.5%. TheTreasury will set out the path to spending 2.5 per cent of GDP on defenceat a future fiscal event.

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