Committee on Defence (Sweden)

The (Parliamentary) Committee on Defence (, FöU) is a parliamentary committee in the Swedish Riksdag. The committee's areas of responsibility concern the military (insofar as such matters do not belong to the preparation of any other committee), the role of the population in defence policies (total defence), along with coordination inside the total defence. The committee also treats questions regarding the coast guard.

The committee's speaker is Peter Hultqvist from the Social Democratic Party since 2022 and the vice-speaker is Lars Wistedt from the Sweden Democrats since 2023.

List of chairs for the committee Name Period Political party  Per Petersson i Gäddvik 1971–1985 Moderate Party  Lennart Blom i Stockholm 1985–1987 Moderate Party  Arne Andersson 1987–1998 Moderate Party  Henrik Landerholm 1998–2002 Moderate Party  Eskil Erlandsson 2002–2006 Centre Party  Ulrica Messing 2006–2007 Social Democratic Party  Anders Karlsson 2007–2010 Social Democratic Party  Håkan Juholt 2010–2011 Social Democratic Party  Peter Hultqvist 2011–2014 Social Democratic Party  Allan Widman 2014–2018 Liberals  Niklas KarlssonPressmeddelande: Nyvalda gruppledare och talespersoner från Socialdemokraterna Archive 2018-09-28 2018–2019 Social Democratic Party  Beatrice Ask 2019 Moderate Party  Pål JonsonPål Jonson (M) 2020–2022 Moderate Party  Helén Pettersson 2022 Social Democratic Party  Peter Hultqvist 2022– Social Democratic Party

List of deputy chairs for the committee Name Period Political party  Eric Holmqvist 1981–1982 Social Democratic Party  Olle Göransson 1982–1988 Social Democratic Party  Roland Brännström 1988–1991 Social Democratic Party  Sture Ericson 1991–1994 Social Democratic Party  Britt Bohlin 1994–1996 Social Democratic Party  Sven Lundberg 1996–1998 Social Democratic Party  Tone Tingsgård 1998–2006 Social Democratic Party  Rolf Gunnarsson 2006–2010 Moderate Party  Cecilia Widegren 2010–2014 Moderate Party  Åsa Lindestam 2014–2018 Social Democratic Party  Beatrice Ask 2018–2019 Moderate Party  Niklas KarlssonNiklas Karlsson (S) 2019–2022 Social Democratic Party  Sven-Olof Sällström 2022–2023 Sweden Democrats  Lars Wistedt 2023–2024 Sweden Democrats  Matheus Enholm 2025– Sweden Democrats

References

External links Riksdag – Försvarsutskottet Riksdag – Defence Committee