Minister for Veterans

The Minister for Veterans is a junior position in the Ministry of Defence in the British government. It is currently held by Johnny Mercer, who took the office on 28 July 2019.[1]

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence People and Veterans
Royal Arms of Her Majesty's Government
Incumbent Johnny Mercer since 28 July 2019
Ministry of Defence
Style	Minister
Nominator	Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Appointer	The Monarch on advice of the Prime Minister
Term length	At Her Majesty's pleasure
Website	Official website

It was formerly known as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence from 1989 to 2005. It was known as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence Veterans, Reserves and Personnel under Tobias Ellwood.

Responsibilities

The minister has the following ministerial responsibilities:[2]

• civilian and service personnel policy
• armed forces pay, pensions and compensation
• Armed Forces Covenant
• welfare and service families
• community engagement
• equality, diversity and inclusion
• veterans (including resettlement, transition, defence charities andMinisterial Covenant and Veterans Board, and Office of Veteran Affairs)
• legacy issues and non-operational public inquiries and inquests
• mental health
• Defence Medical Services
• the people programme (Flexible Engagement Strategy, Future Accommodation Model and Enterprise Approach)
• estates service family accommodation policy and engagement with welfare

Minister for Veterans

Name		Portrait	Entered office	Left office	Political party	Notes
	The Earl of Arran		25 July 1989	26 July 1990	Conservative	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence
	Kenneth Carlisle		October 1990	March 1992	Conservative	-		The Earl of Arran		28 November 1990	15 April 1992	Conservative	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence
	Viscount Cranborne		22 April 1992	20 July 1994	Conservative	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence
	The Lord Henley		20 July 1994	5 July 1995	Conservative	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence
	The Earl Howe		5 July 1995	2 May 1997	Conservative	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence
	John Spellar		6 May 1997	28 July 1999	Labour	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence
	Peter Kilfoyle		28 July 1999	30 January 2000	Labour	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence
	Lewis Moonie		31 January 2001	13 June 2003	Labour	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence
	Ivor Caplin		13 June 2003	11 May 2005	Labour	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence
	Don Touhig		11 May 2005	5 May 2006	Labour	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Veterans
	Tom Watson		5 May 2006	6 September 2006	Labour	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Veterans
	Derek Twigg		6 September 2006	5 October 2008	Labour	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Veterans
	Kevan Jones		5 October 2008	11 May 2010	Labour	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Veterans
	Andrew Robathan		13 May 2010	4 September 2012	Conservative	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Welfare and Veterans
	Mark Francois		4 September 2012	7 October 2013	Conservative	Minister of State for Defence Personnel, Welfare and Veterans
	Anna Soubry		7 October 2013	11 May 2015	Conservative	Minister of State for Defence Personnel, Welfare and Veterans
	Mark Lancaster		12 May 2015	13 June 2017	Conservative	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence Veterans, Reserves and Personnel
	Tobias Ellwood		14 June 2017	26 July 2019	Conservative	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence Veterans, Reserves and Personnel
	Johnny Mercer		28 July 2019	Incumbent	Conservative	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence People and Veterans

References

1. "Ministry of Defence". GOV.uk. UK Government. Retrieved 26 December 2020.
2. "Minister of State - GOV.UK". www.gov.uk. Retrieved 27 December 2020. Text was copied from this source, which is available under an Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright.