Ministerial role
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Minister for the Armed Forces)
Organisations:
Ministry of Defence
Current role holder:
Luke Pollard MP
Responsibilities
- recruitment and readiness
- Afghan resettlement and relocation
- Ukraine support
- Armed Forces Commissioner
- climate change and sustainability
- force generation, posture and deployment
- global operational policy and commitments
- crisis response
- Permanent Joint Operating Bases
- military aid to civilian authorities
- national resilience
- Armed Forces Parliamentary Scheme
Current role holder
Luke Pollard MP
Luke Pollard was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Ministry of Defence on 9 July 2024. He was elected as the MP for Plymouth Sutton and Devonport in July 2024.