Defence: Expenditure
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the size of the defence budget deficit was in 2010-11.
Answered by Luke Pollard
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.
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