{"value":{"id":77563,"askingMemberId":116,"askingMember":null,"house":"Commons","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2014-07-14T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2014-07-17T00:00:00","uin":"205677","questionText":"To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will place in the Library a copy of the NATO definition of defence expenditure.","answeringBodyId":11,"answeringBodyName":"Ministry of Defence","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":true,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":77,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2014-07-17T00:00:00","answerText":"<p>NATO defines defence expenditure as payments made by a national Government specifically to meet the needs of its Armed Forces. NATO publishes the defence expenditure of NATO countries regularly on its website;<br><br>http://www.nato.int/cps/en/natolive/topics_49198.htm<br><br>The published figures represent payments actually made or to be made during the course of the financial year.</p>","originalAnswerText":"","comparableAnswerText":"","dateAnswerCorrected":null,"dateHoldingAnswer":null,"attachmentCount":0,"heading":"Defence: Expenditure","attachments":[],"groupedQuestionsDates":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Questions/77563","method":"GET"}]}