questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much was a) overall and b) core spending on defence in each of the last ten years.
answerText: The UK's defence spending is reported to and published by NATO. The figures requested can be found online: https://www.nato.int/content/dam/nato/webready/documents/finance/def-exp-2025-en.pdf 
heading: Defence: Expenditure