To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the total defence budget is planned to be in each of the next two years. (245869)

The Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR07) settlement set the defence budget for the financial years 2009-10 and 2010-11. The total departmental expenditure limits for these years, as published in Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses 2008, are £35,371 million and £36,897 million respectively.