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皇冠体育app Secretary of State for Defence has overall responsibility for the business of the department.

Responsibilities include:

• strategic campaign and operational oversight including as a member of the National Security Council聽
• Nuclear Deterrent (CAS-D) and operations policy and enterprise
• Strategic Defence Review
• Euro-Atlantic strategy and planning聽
• defence strategy, planning, programme, and resource allocation
• relationships with strategic international partners: US, France, Germany, Australia, Ukraine
• One Defence reform
• oversight of Veterans Strategy
• Afghan Inquiry
• service personnel deaths on duty and letters of condolence聽
• strategic multilateral programmes
• regulatory functions

John Healey was appointed Secretary of State for Defence on 5 July 2024. He was elected as the MP for Rawmarsh and Conisbrough in July 2024.

He was Shadow Housing Secretary from 2015 to 2020 and Shadow Health Secretary from 2010-2011. During Labour鈥檚 time in Government, John was PPS to the Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1999-2001 and a Minister from 2001-2010, serving successively as Adult Skills Minister, Treasury Minister, Local Government Minister and Housing Minister.

Before entering Parliament, John was Campaigns Director at the Trades Union Congress and a disability rights campaigner.

John is married with one son and lives in Rotherham.