National Security: Finance
The question
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, given the Prime Minister's confirmation at the NATO summit that the UK has met the NATO target of spending 1.5% of GDP on security-related investment, if she will set out (a) which departments' budgets contributed to reaching that figure, (b) in what proportion, and (c) whether any new funding was allocated for this purpose.
Answered by Lucy Rigby
The UK has met NATO’s 1.5% defence and security-related spending target, as defined by NATO. NATO’s definition sets out that spend should be to protect our critical infrastructure, defend our networks, ensure our civil preparedness and resilience, unleash innovation and strengthen our defence industrial base. Given this definition, contributions came from a number of departments. All spending captured as part of the 1.5% is determined through the Spending Review and set out to Parliament via the Estimates process in the usual way.
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