Defence Investment Plan - 30th June 2026

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Defence Investment Plan.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2026-06-30/debates/6429FB20-1CA0-4360-A188-E551FBD5728A/DefenceInvestmentPlan

14:32 Dan Jarvis (Labour)

We have made some difficult but necessary decisions to fund this, but our fiscal rules have been upheld and day-to-day spending on frontline services has been protected. All Departments were asked to contribute 1% of their capital budgets from this year, while those with larger resources—the Department for Transport with its roads budget, and the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero—were asked to make further contributions. Full details are set out today in a written ministerial statement. To reinforce that additional investment, this Labour Government are announcing a new £50 billion defence export facility to support British defence firms in winning contracts across the globe.

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16:09 Jeremy Corbyn (Other)

This £300 billion increase in defence expenditure will be paid for by every single Department. The Secretary of State is right to say that there is a world of insecurity and conflict out there, but where is the foreign policy strategy? Where is the policy to reduce tensions? Where is the policy to try to bring about ceasefires in the terrible wars that are going on? Where is the policy to deal with the real insecurities in the world—climate change, global inequality and poverty?

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