| Heading: |
Defence: Expenditure |
| Question ID: |
1798730 |
| UIN: |
903803 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-04-22 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5039 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Kanishka Narayan
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Kanishka Narayan
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the proposed increase in defence spending on the economy in Wales. |
| Is named day: |
true |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-04-30 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
1541 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Dame Nia Griffith
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| Answering Member handle: |
NiaGriffithMP
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@NiaGriffithMP
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| Answer text: |
At the Spring Statement, the Chancellor increased the defence budget by £2.2 billion in 2025-26. This will boost the Welsh economy and our thriving defence sector, where the Ministry of Defence is already supporting 7,700 jobs across the length and breadt... |
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| Answering body ID: |
28 |
| Answering body name: |
Wales Office |
| Tweeted: |
true |