Minister for the Armed Forces
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Armed Forces, formerly of Minister of State rank, is a ministerial position, subordinate to the Secretary of State for Defence, at the Ministry of Defence in Her Majesty's Government.
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Armed Forces | |
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Ministry of Defence | |
Member of | Defence Council Admiralty Board Army Board Air Force Board |
Reports to | Secretary of State for Defence |
Nominator | Secretary of State for Defence |
Appointer | Prime Minister Subject to formal approval by the Queen-in-Council |
Term length | No fixed term |
Inaugural holder | Peter Blaker |
Formation | 1981 |
Website | www.mod.uk |
Role
The responsibilities of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Armed Forces are:
- Operations and operational legal policy
- Brexit no deal planning
- Force generation (including exercises)
- Military recruitment and retention policy (regulars and reserves)
- Cyber
- Permanent Joint Operating bases
- International defence engagement strategy
- Lead for defence engagement in Africa and Latin America
- Human security
- Operational public inquiries, inquests
- Youth and cadets
- Commemorations, ceremonial duties, medallic recognition and protocol policy and casework
List of Ministers of State for the Armed Forces
Colour key (for political parties):
Conservative
Labour
Liberal Democrats
Name | Portrait | Term of office | Political party | Prime Minister | Defence Secretary | |||
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Peter Blaker | 29 May 1981 | 13 June 1983 | Conservative | Thatcher | Nott | |||
Heseltine | ||||||||
John Stanley | 13 June 1983 | 13 June 1987 | ||||||
Younger | ||||||||
Ian Stewart | 13 June 1987 | 25 July 1988 | ||||||
Archie Hamilton | 25 July 1988 | 27 May 1993 | ||||||
King | ||||||||
Conservative | Major | Rifkind | ||||||
Jeremy Hanley | 27 May 1993 | 14 June 1994 | ||||||
Nicholas Soames | 14 June 1994 | 2 May 1997 | ||||||
Portillo | ||||||||
John Reid | 2 May 1997 | 27 July 1998 | Labour | Blair | Robertson | |||
Doug Henderson | 27 July 1998 | 29 July 1999 | ||||||
John Spellar | 29 July 1999 | 7 June 2001 | Hoon | |||||
Adam Ingram | 7 June 2001 | 29 June 2007 | ||||||
Reid | ||||||||
Browne | ||||||||
Bob Ainsworth | 29 June 2007 | 5 May 2009 | Labour | Brown | ||||
Hutton | ||||||||
Bill Rammell | 5 May 2009 | 11 May 2010 | Ainsworth | |||||
Nick Harvey | 13 May 2010 | 4 September 2012 | Liberal Democrats | Cameron (Coalition) |
Fox | |||
Hammond | ||||||||
Andrew Robathan | 4 September 2012 | 7 October 2013 | Conservative | |||||
Mark Francois | 7 October 2013 | 11 May 2015 | ||||||
Fallon | ||||||||
Penny Mordaunt | 11 May 2015 | 15 July 2016 | Cameron (II) | |||||
Mike Penning | 15 July 2016 | 12 June 2017 | May | |||||
Mark Lancaster | 12 July 2017 | 16 December 2019 | ||||||
Williamson | ||||||||
Mordaunt | ||||||||
Johnson | Wallace | |||||||
Anne-Marie Trevelyan | 16 December 2019 | 13 February 2020 |
List of Parliamentary Under-Secretaries of State for the Armed Forces
Colour key (for political parties):
Conservative
Labour
Liberal Democrats
Name | Portrait | Term of office | Political party | Prime Minister | Defence Secretary | |||
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James Heappey | 13 February 2020 | Incumbent | Conservative | Johnson | Wallace |
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