Sir Julian Lewis: I welcome the Government’s commitment ultimately to spend 5% of GDP on defence – as we used to do in the cold war years of the 1980s – but not the target date of 2035. Do the Government really believe that there is no threat of attack from Russia on a NATO country for the next 10 years?

[The Secretary of State for Defence (John Healey): Of course there are rising threats, which is why we have a rising defence budget over the next 10 years. The 2035 commitment that we have made is shared with all other 31 NATO nations.]