NATO: Expenditure

Ministry of Defence written question – answered at on 25 July 2018.

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Photo of Alister Jack Alister Jack Conservative, Dumfries and Galloway

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will publish a breakdown of what the money spent pursuant to the the target of 2 per cent of GDP to be spent on defence has been spent on in the last five years; and how much and what proportion of that money was spent on pensions.

Photo of Gavin Williamson Gavin Williamson The Secretary of State for Defence

The 2015 Spending Review continued the commitment to meet the NATO investment pledge to spend 2% of GDP on Defence for the rest of this decade. This is evaluated using the NATO definitions of Defence spending which the UK complies with fully. Details and figures on NATO Defence expenditures can be found at the following link:

https://www.nato.int/nato_static_fl2014/assets/pdf/pdf_2018_07/20180709_180710-pr2018-91-en.pdf

The amount and proportion spent on pensions, by financial year (FY), is as follows:

Currency Unit: £million

Category

FY2013-14

FY2014-15

FY2015-16

FY2016-17

FY2017-18

Pensions

3,532.172

3,615.597

2,617.655

2,515.559

2,517.501

Proportion of Total

8.87%

9.06%

6.72%

5.96%

5.85%

The UK complies with NATO’s definitions on defence spending.

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