Minister of State for the Armed Forces

Minister of State for the Armed Forces
Royal Arms as used by Her Majesty's Government
File:Rt Hon Mark Lancaster TD MP.jpg Incumbent Mark Lancaster since 12 June 2017
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

The Minister of State for the Armed Forces is a high-ranking ministerial position, subordinate only to the Secretary of State for Defence, at the Ministry of Defence in Her Majesty's Government.

The post is currently held by Col Mark Lancaster, in the Johnson ministry.

Role

The responsibilities of the Minister of State for the Armed Forces are:

• All matters regarding Regular and Reserve Armed Forces
• Operations including Iraq, Counter-Terrorism, UK Operations, Northern Ireland and the Balkans
• Bilateral defence relations outside the NATO/Europe area
• Inquiries, Boards of Inquiry, Inquests
• Legal issues including detention
• Arms and Export Control
• Regional issues and the devolved Administrations
• The agencies DASA and DVA

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
rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Peter Blaker		29 May 1981	13 June 1983	Conservative	rowspan=7 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Thatcher	Nott
Heseltine
	rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	John Stanley		13 June 1983		13 June 1987
Younger
	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Ian Stewart		13 June 1987		25 July 1988
	rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Archie Hamilton		25 July 1988		27 May 1993
King
Conservative	rowspan=4 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |				Major		Rifkind
	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Jeremy Hanley		27 May 1993		14 June 1994
	rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Nicholas Soames		14 June 1994		2 May 1997
	Portillo
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	John Reid		2 May 1997	27 July 1998	Labour	rowspan="6" style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Blair	Robertson
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Doug Henderson		27 July 1998	29 July 1999
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	John Spellar		29 July 1999	7 June 2001		Hoon
rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Adam Ingram		7 June 2001	29 June 2007
Reid
Browne
	rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Bob Ainsworth		29 June 2007	5 May 2009	Labour	rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Brown
Hutton
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Bill Rammell		5 May 2009	11 May 2010	Ainsworth
rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Liberal Democrats (UK)/meta/color" |	Nick Harvey		13 May 2010	4 September 2012	Liberal Democrats	rowspan="5" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Cameron (Coalition)	Fox
Hammond
	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Andrew Robathan		4 September 2012	7 October 2013	Conservative
	rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Mark Francois		7 October 2013	11 May 2015
Fallon
	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Penny Mordaunt		11 May 2015	15 July 2016	Conservative	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Cameron (II)
	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Mike Penning		15 July 2016	12 June 2017	Conservative	rowspan="5" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	May
	rowspan="5" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Mark Lancaster	File:Rt Hon Mark Lancaster TD MP.jpg	12 July 2017	Incumbent
Williamson
Mordaunt
Wallace

External links

• www.mod.uk