Secretary of State for Defence

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Template:Short description Script error: No such module "For". Template:EngvarB Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox official post <templatestyles src="Hlist/styles.css" />Script error: No such module "Sidebar". The secretary of state for defence, also known as the defence secretary, is a secretary of state in the Government of the United Kingdom, with responsibility for the Ministry of Defence.[1] As a senior minister, the incumbent is a member of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom.

The post of secretary of state for defence was created on 1 April 1964, replacing the positions of minister of defence, first lord of the admiralty, secretary of state for war, and secretary of state for air, while the individual offices of the British Armed Forces were abolished and their functions transferred to the Ministry of Defence. In 2019, Penny Mordaunt became the UK's first female defence secretary.[2]

The secretary of state is supported by the other ministers in the Defence Ministerial Team and the MOD permanent secretary. The corresponding shadow minister is the shadow secretary of state for defence, and the secretary of state is also scrutinised by the Defence Select Committee.[3]

The current secretary of state for defence is John Healey, who was appointed on 5 July 2024 following the 2024 United Kingdom general election.[4]

Responsibilities

In contrast to what is generally known as a defence minister in many other countries, the Defence Secretary's remit includes:

History

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Minister for Co-ordination of Defence (1936–1940)

Script error: No such module "Labelled list hatnote". The position of minister for co-ordination of defence was a British Cabinet-level position established in 1936 to oversee and co-ordinate the rearmament of Britain's defences. It was established by the prime minister, Stanley Baldwin, in response to criticism that Britain's armed forces were understrength compared to those of Nazi Germany. When the Second World War broke out, the new prime minister Neville Chamberlain formed a small War Cabinet and it was expected that the minister would serve as a spokesperson for the three service ministers, the secretary of state for war, the first lord of the admiralty and the secretary of state for air; however, political considerations resulted in all three posts being included in the Cabinet, and this role proved increasingly redundant. In April 1940 the position was formally wound up and the functions transferred to other ministers.

Minister Term of office Party Ministry
rowspan="2" style="background-color:Template:Party color" | File:Thomas Inskip.jpg Thomas Inskip
MP for Fareham
(1876–1947)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		13 March 1936 29 January 1939 rowspan="2" Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) |Conservative Template:Party shading/Coalition (UK) |Baldwin III
rowspan="2" Template:Party shading/Coalition (UK) |Chamberlain I
rowspan="2" style="background-color:Template:Party color" | File:Echatfield.jpg Ernle Chatfield
1st Baron Chatfield
(1873–1967)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		29 January 1939 3 April 1940 rowspan="2" Template:Party shading/Coalition (UK) |Independent
(National)
Template:Party shading/Coalition (UK) |Chamberlain War

Minister of Defence (1940–1964)

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The post of minister of defence was responsible for co-ordination of defence and security from its creation in 1940 until its abolition in 1964. The post was a Cabinet level post and generally ranked above the three service ministers, some of whom, however, continued to also serve in Cabinet.

On his appointment as prime minister in May 1940, Winston Churchill created for himself the new post of minister of defence. The post was created in response to previous criticism that there had been no clear single minister in charge of the prosecution of World War II. In 1946, the post became the only cabinet-level post representing the military, with the three service ministers – the secretary of state for war, the first lord of the admiralty, and the secretary of state for air, now formally subordinated to the minister of defence.

Portrait Name
(birth–death)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Term of office Tenure Political party Ministry
Took office Left office
rowspan="2" style="background-color:Template:Party color" | File:Churchill1944.png Winston Churchill
MP for Epping
(1874–1965)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		10 May 1940 27 July 1945 Template:Ayd rowspan="2" Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Conservative Template:Party shading/Coalition (UK) |Churchill War
Template:Party shading/Coalition (UK) |Churchill Caretaker
style="background-color:Template:Party color" | File:Attlee BW cropped.jpg Clement Attlee
MP for Limehouse
(1883–1967)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		27 July 1945 20 December 1946 Template:Ayd Template:Party shading/Labour Party (UK) |Labour rowspan="2" Template:Party shading/Labour Party (UK) |Attlee I
style="background-color:Template:Party color" | File:INF3-62 A V Alexander Artist's signature E A B.jpg A. V. Alexander
MP for Sheffield Hillsborough
(1885–1965) 		20 December 1946 28 February 1950 Template:Ayd Template:Party shading/Labour Party (UK) |Labour Co-op
style="background-color:Template:Party color" | File:Emanuel Shinwel HU 059765 (crop).jpg Emanuel Shinwell
MP for Easington
(1884–1986) 		28 February 1950 26 October 1951 Template:Ayd Template:Party shading/Labour Party (UK) | Labour Template:Party shading/Labour Party (UK) | Attlee II
style="background-color:Template:Party color" | File:Churchill portrait NYP 45063.jpg Winston Churchill
MP for Woodford
(1874–1965) 		28 October 1951 1 March 1952 Template:Ayd Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Conservative rowspan="3" Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) |Churchill III
style="background-color:Template:Party color" | File:Sir Harold Alexander 026065.jpg Harold Alexander
1st Earl Alexander of Tunis
(1891–1969) 		1 March 1952 18 October 1954 Template:Ayd Template:Party shading/Independent (politician) | Independent
style="background-color:Template:Party color" | File:Harold Macmillan in 1942.jpg Harold Macmillan
MP for Bromley
(1894–1986) 		18 October 1954 7 April 1955 Template:Ayd Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Conservative
style="background-color:Template:Party color" | File:SelwynLloyd1960.jpg Selwyn Lloyd
MP for The Wirral
(1904–1978) 		7 April 1955 20 December 1955 Template:Ayd Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Conservative rowspan="3" Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) |Eden
style="background-color:Template:Party color" | File:Sir Walter Monckton, January 1942 IWM A 6697 (cropped).jpg Walter Monckton
MP for Bristol West
(1891–1965) 		20 December 1955 18 October 1956 Template:Ayd Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Conservative
style="background-color:Template:Party color" | File:Blank.png Antony Head
MP for Carshalton
(1906–1983) 		18 October 1956 9 January 1957 Template:Ayd Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Conservative
style="background-color:Template:Party color" | File:Sandys 1944 cropped.jpg Duncan Sandys
MP for Streatham
(1906–1987) 		13 January 1957 14 October 1959 Template:Ayd Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Conservative Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) |Macmillan I
style="background-color:Template:Party color" | File:Blank.png Harold Watkinson
MP for Woking
(1910–1995) 		14 October 1959 13 July 1962 Template:Ayd Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Conservative rowspan="2" Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) |Macmillan II
rowspan="2" style="background-color:Template:Party color" | File:Peter Thorneycroft cropped.png Peter Thorneycroft
MP for Monmouth
(1909–1994) 		13 July 1962 1 April 1964 Template:Ayd rowspan="2" Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Conservative
Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) |Douglas-Home

Secretary of State for Defence (1964–present)

The post was created in 1964 as successor to the posts of minister for coordination of defence and minister of defence. It replaced the positions of first lord of the admiralty, secretary of state for war and secretary of state for air, as the Admiralty, War Office and Air Ministry were merged into the Ministry of Defence (the secretary of state for war had already ceased to be a cabinet position in 1946, with the creation of the cabinet-level minister of defence).

Secretaries of state for defence (1964–present)

Secretary of State for Defence
Portrait Name
(birth–death)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Term of office Tenure Party Ministry
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Peter Thorneycroft cropped.png Peter Thorneycroft
MP for Monmouth
(1909–1994)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".[6] 		1 April 1964 16 October 1964 Template:Age in years and days Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Conservative Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Douglas-Home
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Denis Healey.jpg Denis Healey
MP for Leeds East
(1917–2015)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".[7] 		16 October 1964 19 June 1970 Template:Age in years and days Template:Party shading/Labour | Labour Template:Party shading/Labour | Wilson
(I & II)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Peter Carington 1984.jpg Peter Carrington
6th Baron CarringtonScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
(1919–2018)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		20 June 1970 8 January 1974 Template:Age in years and days Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Conservative rowspan=2 Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Heath
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Ian Gilmour
MP for Central Norfolk
(1926–2007)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".[8] 		8 January 1974 4 March 1974 Template:Age in years and days Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Roy Mason
MP for Barnsley
(1924–2015)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".[9] 		5 March 1974 9 September 1976 Template:Age in years and days Template:Party shading/Labour | Labour Template:Party shading/Labour | Wilson
(III & IV)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Fred Mulley.PNG Fred Mulley
MP for Sheffield Park
(1918–1995)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".[10] 		10 September 1976 4 May 1979 Template:Age in years and days Template:Party shading/Labour | Labour Template:Party shading/Labour | Callaghan
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Francis Leslie Pym.jpg Francis Pym
MP for Cambridgeshire
(1922–2008)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".[11] 		5 May 1979 4 January 1981 Template:Age in years and days Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Conservative rowspan=2 Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Thatcher I
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:John Nott 02 (cropped).jpg John Nott
MP for St Ives
(1932–2024)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".[12] 		5 January 1981 5 January 1983 Template:Age in years and days Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Lord Heseltine (6969083278).jpg Michael Heseltine
MP for Henley
(born 1933)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".[13] 		6 January 1983 8 January 1986 Template:Age in years and days Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Conservative rowspan=2 Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Thatcher II
rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:George Younger.JPEG George Younger
MP for Ayr
(1931–2003)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".[14][15] 		9 January 1986 23 July 1989 Template:Age in years and days rowspan=2 Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Conservative
rowspan=2 Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Thatcher III
rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Official portrait of Lord King of Bridgwater crop 2.jpg Tom King
MP for Bridgwater
(born 1933)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".[16] 		28 July 1989 9 April 1992 Template:Age in years and days rowspan=2 Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Conservative
Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Major I
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Malcolm Rifkind 2011 (cropped).jpg Malcolm Rifkind
MP for Edinburgh Pentlands
(born 1946)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".[17] 		10 April 1992 4 July 1995 Template:Age in years and days Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Conservative rowspan=2 Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Major II
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Michael Portillo by Regents College cropped.jpg Michael Portillo
MP for Enfield Southgate
(born 1953)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".[18] 		5 July 1995 2 May 1997 Template:Age in years and days Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Official portrait of Lord Robertson of Port Ellen 2020 crop 2.jpg George Robertson
MP for Hamilton South
(born 1946)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".[19] 		3 May 1997 11 October 1999 Template:Age in years and days Template:Party shading/Labour | Labour rowspan=2 Template:Party shading/Labour | Blair I
style="background-color: Template:Party color; border-bottom:solid 1px Template:Party color" height=37 | File:Geoff Hoon Headshot.jpg Geoff Hoon
MP for Ashfield
(born 1953)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".[20] 		11 October 1999 6 May 2005 Template:Age in years and days rowspan=2 Template:Party shading/Labour | Labour
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Template:Party shading/Labour | Blair II
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Official portrait of Lord Reid of Cardowan, 2020.jpg John Reid
MP for Airdrie and Shotts
(born 1947)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".[21] 		6 May 2005 5 May 2006 Template:Age in years and days Template:Party shading/Labour | Labour rowspan=2 Template:Party shading/Labour | Blair III
style="background-color: Template:Party color; border-bottom:solid 1px Template:Party color" height=37 | File:Official portrait of Lord Browne of Ladyton crop 2, 2022.jpg Des Browne
MP for Kilmarnock and Loudoun
(born 1952)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".[22] 		5 May 2006 3 October 2008 Template:Age in years and days rowspan=2 Template:Party shading/Labour | Labour
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | rowspan=3 Template:Party shading/Labour | Brown
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Msc 2009-Sunday, 11.00 - 12.30 Uhr-Zwez 005 Hutton detail.jpg John Hutton
MP for Barrow and Furness
(born 1955)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".[23] 		3 October 2008 5 June 2009 Template:Age in years and days Template:Party shading/Labour | Labour
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:The Rt Hon Bob Ainsworth MP (4799292710).jpg Bob Ainsworth
MP for Coventry North East
(born 1952)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".[24] 		5 June 2009 11 May 2010 Template:Age in years and days Template:Party shading/Labour | Labour
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Official portrait of Dr Liam Fox crop 2.jpg Liam Fox
MP for North Somerset
(born 1961)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".[25][26] 		12 May 2010 14 October 2011 Template:Age in years and days Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Conservative rowspan=3 Template:Party shading/Coalition (UK) | Cameron–Clegg
(Con.–L.D.)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Official portrait of Mr Philip Hammond crop 2.jpg Philip Hammond
MP for Runnymede and Weybridge
(born 1955)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".[27][28] 		14 October 2011 15 July 2014 Template:Age in years and days Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Conservative
rowspan=4 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Official portrait of Sir Michael Fallon crop 2.jpg Michael Fallon
MP for Sevenoaks
(born 1952)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".[29][30] 		15 July 2014 1 November 2017 Template:Age in years and days rowspan=4 Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Conservative
Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Cameron II
Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | May I
rowspan="3" Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | May II
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Official portrait of Rt Hon Gavin Williamson MP crop 2.jpg Gavin Williamson
MP for South Staffordshire
(born 1976)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".[31][32] 		2 November 2017 1 May 2019 Template:Age in years and days Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Rt Hon Penny Mordaunt.jpg Penny Mordaunt
MP for Portsmouth North
(born 1973)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".[33][34] 		1 May 2019 24 July 2019 Template:Age in years and days Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Conservative
rowspan=4 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Official portrait of Rt Hon Ben Wallace MP crop 2.jpg Ben Wallace
MP for Wyre and Preston North
(born 1970)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".[35][36] 		24 July 2019 31 August 2023 Template:Age in years and days rowspan=4 Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Conservative Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Johnson I
Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Johnson II
Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Truss
rowspan="2" Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Sunak
rowspan=1 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:Official portrait of Rt Hon Grant Shapps MP crop 2.jpg Grant Shapps
MP for Welwyn Hatfield
(born 1968)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".[37] 		31 August 2023 5 July 2024 Template:Age in years and days rowspan=1 Template:Party shading/Conservative (UK) | Conservative
rowspan=1 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | File:John Healey Official Cabinet Portrait, July 2024 (cropped) 2.jpg John Healey
MP for Rawmarsh and Conisbrough
(born 1960)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		5 July 2024 Incumbent Template:Age in years and days Template:Party shading/Labour | Labour Template:Party shading/Labour Party (UK) | Starmer

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