HC Deb 15 November 1979 vol 973 c736W
Mr. Michael Brown

asked the Secretary of State for Defence what are the levels of military expenditure in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the United States of America.

Mr. Pym

As a proportion of gross national product at factor cost, Soviet defence expenditure at between 11 and 13 per cent. is approximately twice that of the United States at 5.7 per cent.