Committee on Defence (Sweden)

(Parliamentary) Committee on Defence^[1] (Swedish: försvarsutskottet) (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 speakers 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 Karlsson[2]	2018–2019	Social Democratic Party
	Beatrice Ask	2019	Moderate Party
	Pål Jonson[3]	2020–2022	Moderate Party
	Helén Pettersson	2022	Social Democratic Party
	Peter Hultqvist	2022–	Social Democratic Party

List of vice-speakers 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 Karlsson[4]	2019–2022	Social Democratic Party
	Sven-Olof Sällström	2022–2023	Sweden Democrats
	Lars Wistedt	2023–	Sweden Democrats

References

1. Utrikes namnbok. [Elektronisk resurs] : svenska myndigheter, organisationer, titlar, EU- och EG-organ, EU-titlar och länder på engelska, tyska, franska, spanska, finska och ryska (PDF) (in Swedish) (9th, rev. ed.). Stockholm: Utrikesdepartementet, Regeringskansliet. 2013. p. 15. SELIBR 14986186.
2. Pressmeddelande: Nyvalda gruppledare och talespersoner från Socialdemokraterna Archive 2018-09-28
3. Pål Jonson (M)
4. Niklas Karlsson (S)

External links

• Riksdag – Försvarsutskottet Riksdag – Defence Committee