Defence Secretary

The Secretary of State for Defence, shortened to Defence Secretary and sometimes nicknamed the Defence Minister, was in charge of the United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence.

The Defence Minister during the Axos affair had sent Horatio Chinn, a man he loathed, to investigate UNIT and ensure they were following MoD guidelines. When Britain had the chance to have a monopoly on Axonite, he granted Chinn the powers to arrest UNIT and was left politically embarrassed when this was leaked to the United Nations. (TV: The Claws of Axos)

In 1999, Jennifer Hamilton was Defence Secretary. She colluded with the Prime Minister's Voracian scheme and was murdered when she tried to back out. (PROSE: Millennium Shock)

In 2005, a panicked Defence Minister called MI6 to report the activation codes for the nuclear arsenal had been wiped. (COMIC: The Flood)

An unnamed male Defence Secretary was part of the attempt to cut a deal with the the 456 and believed the selection of children would have to be random and appear fair, so that the government could defend itself; he proposed "limiting" the loss to one child per family, with every second child, but realised the logistics meant it had to be one school at a time. Ultimately, he agreed with handing over the bottom 10% of the school league tables instead of a random selection (TV: Children of Earth: Day Three, Day Four) and ordered the British Army to kidnap children and deliver them to the aliens. (TV: Children of Earth: Day Five)