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Defence

In: Public Expenditure Policy, 1984–85

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  • David Greenwood

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The United Kingdom mounts a comprehensive and balanced defence effort for the fulfilment of both its obligations as a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) and certain exclusively national security responsibilities. The country’s naval, ground and air forces have to perform a broad spectrum of roles and missions. Of late, sustaining all this has required the allotment to defence of steadily increasing funds each year. Between 1978/9 and 1983/4 military spending in volume terms rose by 20 per cent. The bill has also been taking progressively larger slices of both central government outlays and total public expenditure. The Ministry of Defence’s (MOD) budget for 1984/5 represents almost 19 per cent of the former, about 13.5 per cent of the latter; the corresponding proportions in 1978/9 were approximately 16.5 per cent and 11.5 per cent.

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  • David Greenwood, 1984. "Defence," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Paul Cockle (ed.), Public Expenditure Policy, 1984–85, chapter 10, pages 172-192, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-17623-6_10
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-17623-6_10
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