Submitted on Monday 9th March 2026
Rejected on Monday 13th April 2026
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)
Relevant Departments
Increase spending on defence in the UK
The Government needs to focus spending directly to maintaining a minimum threshold of essential resources required to sustain a continuous defence if the world enters a new time of conflict such as an escalation of current hostilities. We must start now instead of just promising to increase it later
There is a majority Government in House of Commons so they have full ability to create the budget as they want. With this ability they should be aiming to help the UK as a whole to the greatest extent possible however as such an inability to protect ourselves in times of conflict means they failed.
While researching for my active citizenship project I realised that while we were spending our money on new high tech equipment we lacked the essential resources to sustain an effective defence.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
The Government has already announced increases in spending on defence. We are therefore not clear what action you are seeking which is different to what is already taking place.
You could start a new petition setting out in what way you would like the Government's plans to be different.
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