HC Deb 20 March 1980 vol 981 c305W
Mr. Dempsey

asked the Secretary of State for Defence if he will publish in the Official Report details showing the amount of expenditure per head of the population in each member country of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation towards the actual cost of the Alliance.

Mr. Pym

The costs of jointly funded NATO facilities are financed through the common infrastructure programme, the military budget and the civil budget. These respectively finance the provision of certain categories of fixed facilities; the cost of operating military headquarters (including certain other running costs); and the cost of the international civil staffs. The assessed per capita expenditure of each NATO member country is as follows:

£ 1979 Military and Civil Budgets 1975–79* Infrastructure Budget
Belgium 0.4630 1.36
Canada 0.3795 0.64
Denmark 0.5248 1.75
France 0.2110
Germany 0.4116 1.05
Greece 0.0645 0.20
Italy 0.1669 0.34
Luxembourg 0.3972 1.44
Netherlands 0.3264 0.88
Norway 0.4569 1.86
Portugal 0.1012 0.09
Turkey 0.0584 0.07
United Kingdom 0.5128 0.52
United States 0.1760 0.30
Iceland 0.3406
* NATO allocates funds for infrastructure expenditure over a five-year period. The figures shown represent the average annual per capita cost over the period 1975–79.
† France contributes only to infrastructure early warning projects and since her contribution is small, she has been excluded.
‡ Iceland is not shown here because her infrastructure costs are met in full by the United States.

For figures on total defence expenditure per capita I refer the hon. Gentleman to the reply I gave his hon. Friend the Member for Harlow (Mr. Newens) on 4 March.—[Vol. 980, cc. 118–20.]

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