Defence Budget Does Include Intelligence Spending, Business Secretary Confirms
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We can make the numbers say anything, we hear sometimes. That's probably what the former Secretary of Defense, Ben Wallace, would say.
Labour faces defence spending investigation on Budget eve amid claims public was misled
Labour is facing an investigation over claims that it misled the public about defence on the day before Andy Burnham and John Healey first Budget.Former defence secretary Sir Ben Wallace has accused the Government of inflating its defence budget by including billions of pounds in intelligence spending.He claims the move creates a misleading impression that Britain is on course to meet its Nato spending commitments.Nato rules stipulate that fundi…
Defence budget does include intelligence spending, Business Secretary confirms
Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds has said the defence budget does include spending on the security and intelligence services but denied that the government was breaching NATO rules by doing so. He was responding to a claim from former defence secretary Sir Ben Wallace that the
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