page_title: Mark Lancaster
section_title: Honours
hierarchical_section_title: Mark Lancaster / Honours
caption_attribution_description: Visit to the Falkland Islands by Mr Mark Lancaster TD MP, Minister for Defence Veterans, Reserves &amp; Personnel - November 2016
context_page_description: Colonel John Mark Lancaster, TD, VR is a British Conservative Party politician, who served as Member of Parliament for Milton Keynes North from the seat's creation at the 2010 general election until his retirement in 2019, having been Member of Parliament for the North East Milton Keynes constituency between 2005 and 2010. He served as a Minister in several appointments after the formation of the Coalition Government in 2010, first as Lord Commissioner of Her Majesty's Treasury, before in May 2015 moving to the Ministry of Defence as the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Veterans, Reserves and Personnel, then on the 13 June 2017, he was appointed Minister of State for the Armed Forces in the Second May ministry and was reappointed by Boris Johnson at the start of his Premiership in July 2019, he served in this role until his retirement from Government on 16 December 2019.
caption: Lancaster wearing medals on Remembrance Day 2016
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