"Sevenoaks (UK Parliament constituency) Sevenoaks is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 1997 by Sir Michael Fallon, a Conservative, who served as Secretary of State for Defence until 1 November 2017. It is considered a safe Conservative seat. This constituency has existed since the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885. With the exception of the one-year Parliament in 1923, the constituency has to date been a Conservative stronghold. Sir Thomas Jewell Bennett before entering Parliament was a leader writer at ""The Standard"" and lived in India for many years, working at the ""Bombay Gazette"""
"Michael Fallon Sir Michael Cathel Fallon (born 14 May 1952) is a British politician of the Conservative Party serving as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sevenoaks since 1997. From 2014 to 2017, he was Secretary of State for Defence and a member of the National Security Council. He was previously Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party (2010–2012), Minister of State for Business and Enterprise (2012–2014), Minister of State for Energy (2013–2014), and Minister of State for Portsmouth (2014). Fallon was born in Perth, Scotland, to Martin Fallon OBE, a surgeon. He was educated at Craigflower Preparatory School near Dunfermline"
"professional, since 27 September 1986; the couple have two sons. The family lives in Sundridge, Kent. He was banned from driving for 18 months in 1983 after admitting a drink-driving offence during the general election campaign. Fallon was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) for political and public service as part of the Resignation Honours of the outgoing Prime Minister David Cameron. Michael Fallon Sir Michael Cathel Fallon (born 14 May 1952) is a British politician of the Conservative Party serving as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sevenoaks since 1997. From 2014 to 2017,"
"Williamson was subsequently the subject of a meeting with managers. Gavin Williamson Gavin Alexander Williamson (born 25 June 1976) is a British Conservative politician serving as Secretary of State for Defence since 2017, and has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for South Staffordshire since 2010. Williamson served in the Cameron Government as Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to Patrick McLoughlin, the Secretary of State for Transport prior to being appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Prime Minister in October 2013. From 14 July 2016 to 2 November 2017, he served as Chief Whip in the May Government, and on 2"
"Gavin Williamson Gavin Alexander Williamson (born 25 June 1976) is a British Conservative politician serving as Secretary of State for Defence since 2017, and has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for South Staffordshire since 2010. Williamson served in the Cameron Government as Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to Patrick McLoughlin, the Secretary of State for Transport prior to being appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Prime Minister in October 2013. From 14 July 2016 to 2 November 2017, he served as Chief Whip in the May Government, and on 2 November 2017 he was appointed Defence Secretary. Williamson is originally"
"Defence Reform Act 2014. In January 2015, he announced that he would not contest the Midlothian seat at the upcoming election. The Scottish National Party candidate Owen Thompson went on to win the Midlothian seat in 2015 with a 9,859 majority. This win, following national trends, was a huge swing of +30% to the SNP. Hamilton was knighted in the 2016 Birthday Honours for political and parliamentary service. He has been married to Jean Trench Macrae since 1969 and they have two daughters. He takes a keen interest in biotechnology. David Hamilton (politician) Sir David Hamilton (born 24 October 1950)"
"kits. Soubry was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence in David Cameron's October 2013 reshuffle, becoming the first elected female politician to be a Minister in the MoD. In the July 2014 reshuffle, Soubry was appointed Minister of State for Defence Personnel, Welfare and Veterans. Following the 2015 general election, Soubry became Minister of State at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills until 15 July 2016. Her partner, Neil Davidson is a director at Morrisons leading her opponents to note a potential conflict of interest when she introduced new Sunday trading laws. Soubry is a strong supporter of"
"Gemma Doyle (politician) Gemma Doyle (born 13 April 1981) is a British Labour Co-operative politician, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for West Dunbartonshire between 2010 and 2015. She previously worked for the Labour Party, and before that for the Institution of Civil Engineers as a conference organiser, for the political communications company Holyrood Communications Ltd, and as a Labour party researcher for Cathy Craigie Labour MSP. She had previously stood as a Labour candidate in Scotland at the 2004 European Parliament elections. In October 2010 she became Labour's Shadow Defence Minister for Defence Personnel, Welfare and Veterans, deputy"
"coalition cabinet of Antonis Samaras, formed after the June 2012 elections, he has held the posts of Minister for Public Order and Citizen Protection (21 June 2012 – 10 June 2014), Minister for Development and Competitiveness (10 June – 3 November 2014) and, from 3 November 2014 to 27 January 2015, Minister for National Defence. Nikos Dendias Nikos Dendias (; born 7 October 1959 in Corfu) is a Greek lawyer and politician of the conservative New Democracy party. He is a Member of the Hellenic Parliament for Corfu, and was Minister for National Defence from November 2014 to January 2015."
"Secretary to the Minister of Veterans Affairs (2015). Deepak Obhrai, , is the MP for Calgary Forest Lawn, Alberta (2015–present), and represented Calgary East, Alberta (1997–2015), was Shadow Minister of International Development (2015–2016), and is the Dean of the Conservative Caucus. In the Harper government he was the Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign Affairs (2006–2015). Obhrai was a member of the Canadian Alliance at the time of the merger. Erin O'Toole, , is the MP for Durham, Ontario (2012–present) and was Shadow Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness (2015–2016) for the Conservative Party in Opposition. Previously, he served as Minister"
"at the 2017 election. Having served as a Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to the Shadow Wales and Defence teams, he was appointed by Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn as a Shadow Wales Minister in October 2016 and a Shadow Defence Minister in July 2017. As of June 2015, he is one of 125 MPs who employ a member of their family; he employs his partner as a senior parliamentary assistant. Jones was born in 1970 in Phillipstown, New Tredegar: a small community in the Upper Rhymney Valley. Before becoming an MP spent 15 years working in the third sector, primarily in"
"Anna Soubry Anna Mary Soubry (; born 7 December 1956) is a British Conservative Party politician, barrister and journalist. She has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Broxtowe in Nottinghamshire since the 2010 general election. Soubry was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Public Health (2012–2013), Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Defence Personnel, Welfare and Veterans (2013–2014), Minister of State for Defence Personnel, Welfare and Veterans (2014–2015) and Minister for Small Business, Industry and Enterprise from the 2015 general election, also attending meetings of the Cabinet, but she returned to the backbenches in July 2016. ""The Independent""s Simon"
"2017 involving an alleged incident in 2015, involving feeding alcohol to a dog and brawling with a friend. Mark Menzies Mark Andrew Menzies (born 18 May 1971) is a British Conservative Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Fylde in Lancashire since 2010. He was formerly PPS to Charles Hendry MP, Minister of State for Energy and Climate Change before both men were moved in the 2012 Cabinet Reshuffle. He resigned as Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to Mark Prisk MP, Minister of State for Housing and Local Government in March 2014. Menzies grew up in Ardrossan,"
"Julian Brazier Sir Julian William Hendy Brazier (born 24 July 1953) is a British Conservative Party politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Canterbury from 1987 to 2017. He was a shadow transport minister until May 2010, with responsibility for aviation and shipping, and is a member of the Conservative Christian Fellowship. He was appointed as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Ministry of Defence in the reshuffle on 15 July 2014, and retained the position after holding his seat in the 2015 general election. Following the formation of Theresa May's government in July 2016 he returned"
"in 2012. He currently lives in London and the North East of England. Michael Bates, Baron Bates Michael Walton Bates, Baron Bates (born 26 May 1961) is a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom serving in the House of Lords since 2008 having previously represented the constituency of Langbaurgh in the House of Commons from 1992 to 1997. From 2014 to 2015, he was Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Criminal Information at the Home Office. In May 2015 he was appointed Minister of State in the Home Office. In March 2016, he resigned as Minister of State in order"
"leadership, and Tony Abbott was ultimately successful. Following his election as Leader, Abbott promoted Andrews to the Shadow Cabinet as Minister for Families, Housing and Human Services. In the 2010 federal election, Andrews was re-elected to the seat of Menzies with a 2.70% swing against the Labor Party. In the Abbott Government, Andrews served as Minister for Social Services from September 2013 to December 2014. He was then Minister for Defence from December 2014 to September 2015. On 14 September 2015, after Deputy Leader Julie Bishop announced she would support Malcolm Turnbull in challenge against Prime Minister Tony Abbott for"
"the Conservative whip and vote to have no confidence in her government if 'no deal' became the policy of the government. She is a single mother of two children. Anna Soubry Anna Mary Soubry (; born 7 December 1956) is a British Conservative Party politician, barrister and journalist. She has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Broxtowe in Nottinghamshire since the 2010 general election. Soubry was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Public Health (2012–2013), Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Defence Personnel, Welfare and Veterans (2013–2014), Minister of State for Defence Personnel, Welfare and Veterans (2014–2015) and Minister"
"Guto Bebb Guto ap Owain Bebb (born 9 October 1968) is a Welsh Conservative Party politician and former business consultant who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Aberconwy since the 2010 general election. He had previously unsuccessfully contested elections to both the Welsh Assembly and the House of Commons. He has served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Wales Office from 2016 to 2018, and as Minister for Defence Procurement at the Ministry of Defence from January 2018 until his resignation in July 2018. Bebb was born in Wrexham on 9 October 1968 to a family who"
"Vernon Coaker Vernon Rodney Coaker (born 17 June 1953) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Gedling since 1997. He also served as the Minister of State for Schools from 2009 to 2010, Shadow Secretary of State for Defence from 2013 to 2015 and Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland from October 2011 to October 2013, and again from September 2015 until his resignation in June 2016 from the Shadow Cabinet. Born in Westminster, London, Coaker attended Drayton Manor Grammar School in London. He studied for an Economics and Politics BA"
"Duncan Hames Duncan John Hames (born 16 June 1977) is a British Liberal Democrat politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Chippenham constituency in Wiltshire from the 2010 general election until 30 March 2015, when parliament was dissolved for the election of May 2015, at which he was defeated by the Conservative Party candidate Michelle Donelan. He served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Nick Clegg when he was Deputy Prime Minister, a post in which he succeeded his wife Jo Swinson. Hames was born in Hertfordshire and attended Watford Grammar School for Boys. He studied PPE at"
"2015 after the resignation of Csaba Hende during the European migrant crisis, with the speed at constructing a wall on the border with Serbia being an issue for Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. István Simicskó István Simicskó (born 29 November 1961) is a Hungarian politician of the governing Fidesz–KDNP coalition. He has been a Member of the National Assembly since 1998. He served as Minister of Defence from 10 September 2015 to 18 May 2018. Simicskó was born in Tiszalök, Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County on 29 November 1961. He finished his secondary studies at the Jedlik Ányos Secondary Grammar School of Csepel in"
"Mark Simmonds Mark Jonathon Mortlock Simmonds (born 12 April 1964) is a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Boston and Skegness in Lincolnshire, and was first elected in 2001, succeeding Sir Richard Body. He was re-elected in 2005 with a greatly increased majority before his subsequent re-election in 2010 - more than doubling his 2005 majority. In September 2012 he was appointed to the Government as a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. On 11 August 2014 he resigned this post and confirmed that he would step"
"lost her seat at the election. Bronwyn Bishop resigned as Speaker in 2015. Julie Bishop remained the only woman in Cabinet until Sussan Ley was appointed to Cabinet to replace Peter Dutton as Health and Sport Minister in 2014 when Dutton was made Immigration Minister in Abbott's Cabinet revision. Five other women were appointed to posts in the outer ministry, and one of the twelve parliamentary secretaries is female. Philip Ruddock, the longest serving member in the Parliament, was appointed Chief Government Whip. Eric Abetz retained the portfolio of Employment, George Brandis was appointed Attorney-General, Christopher Pyne as Education Minister,"
"retained his post as defense minister. In August 2012, Siemoniak declared that Poland is planning to form its own missile defense system with an estimated budget of between $3 billion and $6 billion. Tomasz Siemoniak Tomasz Siemoniak (born 2 July 1967) is a Polish politician, Minister of National Defence from 2 August 2011 to 16 November 2015 and Deputy Prime Minister of Poland from 22 September 2014 to 16 November 2015. Siemoniak was born on 2 July 1967. He graduated from the Foreign Trade Faculty of the Warsaw School of Economics. During his university education, he was the head of"
"force generation. Following the 2015 general election, he became Minister of State for Communities and Resilience and Minister for Portsmouth at the Department for Communities and Local Government. Francois left the government after Theresa May was appointed Prime Minister, but she appointed him to conduct a review into the use of reserves in the Army. Since September 2017, Francois has sat on the Defence Select Committee. He was briefly married to Karen Thomas, whom he married in June 2000 in Langdon Hills, Basildon. Mark Francois Mark Gino Francois (born 14 August 1965) is a British Conservative Party politician. He is"
"which received Tir Gofal funding. Her hobbies include music, European cinema, gardening, walking and cycling. Nia Griffith Nia Rhiannon Griffith (born 4 December 1956) is a Welsh Labour politician, who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Llanelli since 2005. She previously held the position of Shadow Secretary of State for Wales, having been appointed to the post by Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn in September 2015 until she resigned in June 2016. On 6 October 2016, Corbyn appointed Griffith as Shadow Secretary of State for Defence, replacing Clive Lewis. Griffith was born in Dublin, Republic of Ireland, on"
"He took over from Taoiseach Enda Kenny, who was the acting Minister for Defence, following Alan Shatter's resignation from cabinet, in May 2014. As Minister for Defence, Coveney launched the White Paper on Defence in August 2015. On 17 June 2015, Coveney questioned the judgment of an experienced Air Corps pilot who refused to fly him to Cork, because of predicted fog. In email correspondence between Department of Defence officials, the Air Corps is described as being “very unhappy” about the incident and indicating that they had never received such a call in 25 years.” On 6 May 2016, Coveney"
"Mark Francois Mark Gino Francois (born 14 August 1965) is a British Conservative Party politician. He is the Member of Parliament (MP) for Rayleigh and Wickford. He was appointed as a Minister of State at the Ministry of Defence on 4 September 2012, and was Minister of State for the Armed Forces. Following the Conservatives' success at the 2015 general election he became Minister of State for Communities and Resilience and Minister for Portsmouth at the Department for Communities and Local Government. In 2018, he was appointed the Deputy Chair of the Conservative eurosceptic European Research Group by its Chairman,"
"UK general election of 2015. Rees was appointed a Shadow Justice Minister in January 2016, but quit her position during the mass resignation of Shadow ministers following the EU referendum. She later became one of 33 Labour MPs to return to the front bench, again in the position of Shadow Justice Minister. In February 2017, she was appointed to the position of Shadow Secretary of State for Wales. Rees was married to Welsh politician and former Secretary of State for Wales, Ron Davies. The couple divorced in 1999 and have one daughter. Rees is one of a handful of MPs"
"live in the district of Rushcliffe. Vernon Coaker Vernon Rodney Coaker (born 17 June 1953) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Gedling since 1997. He also served as the Minister of State for Schools from 2009 to 2010, Shadow Secretary of State for Defence from 2013 to 2015 and Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland from October 2011 to October 2013, and again from September 2015 until his resignation in June 2016 from the Shadow Cabinet. Born in Westminster, London, Coaker attended Drayton Manor Grammar School in London. He studied"
"was replaced by the single-party Cameron ministry after the 2015 general election. The previous Parliament had been dissolved on 12 April 2010 in advance of the general election on 6 May. The election resulted in a hung parliament, no single party having an overall majority in the House of Commons, the Conservatives having the most seats but 20 short of a majority. In the Conservative–Liberal Democrat coalition agreement of 11 May 2010, the two parties formed a coalition government. The new Parliament met on 18 May for the swearing-in of Peers in the House of Lords and newly elected and"
"motion in 2006 calling for the government to ban sales of alcohol in glass containers in bars after 11pm. He was the (unpaid) Parliamentary Advisor to the Royal Society of Chemistry until his promotion to Minister in 2012. Shortly after his re-election in 2010, he was appointed as the Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to the Secretary of State for International Development. In September 2012 he became a Government Minister when he was made a Lord Commissioner of Her Majesty's Treasury. In May 2015 He was appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Defence, with responsibility for Defence Veterans and Personnel."
"Brooks Newmark Brooks Phillip Victor Newmark (born 8 May 1958) was the Conservative Member of Parliament for Braintree until 2015. First elected in 2005, he served in various positions including as Minister for Civil Society, government whip, and foreign affairs whip in opposition. On 11 October 2014, Newmark announced that he would stand down at the 2015 general election following media reports on his personal life.<ref name=""BBC11/10/2014""></ref> Newmark was born in Westport, Connecticut, in the United States, on 8 May 1958 to Howard Newmark and Gilda Gourlay (née Rames). He is of Jewish heritage. He moved to the UK aged"