Ministry of Defence · United Kingdom · 2025
The Defence
Investment Plan
The funded plan that delivers the Strategic Defence Review's vision — money, capabilities, and timelines.
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Unofficial interactive summary · Not an official publication
Context · DIP Ch 1
From Review to Investment
The Strategic Defence Review set the strategy. The Defence Investment Plan translates it into funded commitments — allocating the money, naming the programmes, and setting the delivery timelines.
SDR published; all 62 recommendations accepted
Defence Investment Plan published
£297.7bn defence spending — the delivery Parliament
NATO 3.5% / 5% GDP target
DIP Ch 1 · SDR 2025 · DIP Funding Explainer
Scale · DIP Ch 1 · Funding Explainer
The Headline Numbers
2026/27 – 2029/30
INVESTMENT
ACCEPTED
- NATO spending rises to 2.6% of GDP from April 2027 — the highest in decades
- Ambition to reach 3% GDP in the next Parliament, subject to economic conditions
- NATO Hague Summit commitment: 3.5% core / 5% total by 2035
- £155.8bn allocated across nine Integrated Force domains (DIP Table 2)
DIP Ch 1 · DIP Funding Explainer · DIP Table 1 · DIP Table 2
Console A · Funding · DIP Funding Explainer
£15bn: Where It Comes From
Six funding streams combine to deliver the £15bn Parliament uplift. Hover or tap each bar to see details.
DIP Funding Explainer · verified 2026-07
Three Pillars · DIP Ch 2–4
Three Pillars of Investment
The DIP organises £297.7bn of defence spending around three mutually reinforcing pillars. Select a panel to expand its summary.
DIP four-page summary · DIP Ch 2, 3, 4
Pillar I · DIP Ch 2
Transforming our Armed Forces
Build the Integrated Force, renew the deterrent, deliver the Digital Targeting Web by 2027, and reset innovation to wartime pace.
- Dreadnought-class SSBNs, SSN-AUKUS attack submarines, and the Astraea warhead programme
- Integrated Force replaces single-Service silos — all domains directed by new MSHQ
- AI and autonomous systems integrated across domains; commercial tech exploited at speed
- F-35 fleet growth, Typhoon upgrades, and GCAP sixth-generation combat air in parallel
DIP Ch 2 · DIP Table 2 · SDR Ch 4.1, 7
Console B · DIP Ch 2 · Table 2
£155.8bn Across Nine Domains
Select a domain to see flagship programmes, the Table 2 figure, and its SDR trace. Use arrow keys to navigate; Enter to open.
DIP Chapter 2 · Table 2 — Investment in the Integrated Force by domain
Pillar II · DIP Ch 3
Backing British Industry & Skills
Defence spending as an engine for economic growth — creating jobs, growing the industrial base, and reforming how the MOD buys.
- New munitions factories and energetics capability built on UK soil
- National Armaments Director leads acquisition — buying British where it can, buying fast always
- Segmented procurement: major platforms contracted within 2 years; upgrades within 1 year; commercial exploitation within 3 months
- Regional investment spread — defence as an anchor for industrial clusters across the UK
DIP Ch 3 · DIP Table 2 (Weapons & Munitions domain)
Note: DIP-specific aggregate jobs and apprenticeships figures could not be confirmed from source documents; the document links specific industrial programmes rather than citing headline employment totals. See source DIP Ch 3.
Pillar III · DIP Ch 4
Stepping Up UK Leadership
NATO First. Deepen AUKUS and GCAP. Sustain Ukraine. Strengthen the Euro-Atlantic and Indo-Pacific posture.
- NATO First: leading, not just meeting, Alliance commitments — 2.6% GDP from April 2027
- AUKUS Pillar I: SSN-AUKUS submarines; Pillar II: advanced capabilities and AI with Australia and the US
- GCAP: UK-Japan-Italy sixth-generation combat air programme — £8.6bn in the DIP
- Ukraine: sustained military support; strengthening European defence industrial capacity
DIP Ch 4 · DIP Table 2 (Air, Maritime, Space domains)
Delivery · DIP Ch 1 & Ch 5
Delivery & Reform
Four structural changes govern how the DIP gets delivered — compressing timelines and concentrating accountability.
- Military Strategic Headquarters (MSHQ) — new joint command directing the Integrated Force across all nine domains (SDR Ch 4.1)
- National Armaments Director — single point of accountability for acquisition and industrial delivery (SDR / Defence Reform)
- UK Defence Innovation — £400m ring-fenced budget to exploit commercial technology at wartime speed (SDR Ch 4.2)
DIP Ch 1 · SDR Ch 4.1, 4.2 · DIP four-page summary
Mission Debrief · Credits · Attribution
Summary
This is an unofficial interactive summary, not an official MOD publication.
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Source: Defence Investment Plan, Ministry of Defence, © Crown copyright 2025. All figures drawn from the documents listed below. No figures are independently invented; see assets/data/dip-data.json for full provenance and extraction notes.