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| Incumbent Gerald Howarth |
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| Style | The Most Honourable |
| Appointed by | David Cameron as Prime Minister |
| First minister | The Lady Taylor |
| Formation | 5 October 2008 |
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The Minister for International Security Strategy is a British government position. The current holder of the post is Gerald Howarth, Conservative Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Ministry of Defence,[1].
The post was formerly known as the Minister for International Security and Defence which was first created on 5th October 2008 when the former Labour Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, had a reshuffle.
The post is a junior ministerial position within the Ministry of Defence, previously it was of the more senior rank of Minister of State, but now it is of Parliamentary Under-Secretary level.
| Name | Portrait | Entered office | Left office | Political party | |
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| Ann Taylor, Baroness Taylor of Bolton | 5 October 2008 | 11 May 2010 | Labour | ||
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| Gerald Howarth | 9 June 2010 | present | Conservative | ||
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