Luke Pollard

“It comes as the minister for defence readiness Luke Pollard said next year’s spending review would set out a path to spending 3.5 per cent of GDP on defence by 2035, in line with Nato target. However…”

“So we've got a £298billion defence plan for the next four years, that £15 billion increase, two thirds of that increase has been funded by asking other departments to give up 1P in the pound of their…”

“two thirds of that increase has been funded by asking other departments to give up 1P in the pound of their capital budgets and move that money to defence.”

“I want to see people that are on welfare, if they can work, get back into work, and that's why you will know that we've set out a billion pound increase in the help and support to help people that ar…”

“It was in the past few days, because I only saw the formal draft, as many of the public did when it was published by the Treasury alongside the Defence Investment Plan.”

“two thirds of that increase has been funded by asking other departments to give up 1P in the pound of their capital budgets and move that money to defence. £4.7billion of that increased defence budge…”

“That's why when the Prime Minister set out that we need to be ready to respond to a potential Russian attack by 2030, we're doing that by increasing that readiness.”