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Defence: Expenditure |
| Question ID: |
1786601 |
| UIN: |
39794 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-03-19 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5100 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Blake Stephenson
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Blake Stephenson
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Prime Minister's Oral Statement of 25 February 2025 on Defence and Security, Official Report, columns 631-634, if she will provide a breakdown of the funding sources for the proposed increase i |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-03-27 |
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false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4621 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Darren Jones
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| Answering Member handle: |
darrenpjones
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@darrenpjones
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| Answer text: |
The Prime Minister’s announcement in February is fully funded - we are reducing ODA to the equivalent of 0.3% of GNI to fund the additional spend required to ensure we reach 2.5% of GDP on defence spending in 2027-28. |
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| Answering body ID: |
14 |
| Answering body name: |
Treasury |
| Tweeted: |
true |