I am sure that the Minister knows that friends of defence on both sides of the House wish to campaign for the 3% of GDP, as recommended by successive Defence Committees, to be spent on defence, but to do that, we need accurate figures. Does the Minister accept that the black hole in the defence budget was correctly described as £17 billion? How much of that £17 billion would be met by cuts and cancellations? How much would be topped up by money from the extra £24 billion, and, at the end of the process, how much of the extra £24 billion will be left for new projects?
Defence and Security Industrial Strategy
Proceeding contribution from
Julian Lewis
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 23 March 2021.
It occurred during Ministerial statement on Defence and Security Industrial Strategy.
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