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Committee on Defence (Sweden)
Swedish parliamentary committee
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The (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 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 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 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 Karlsson[4] | 2019–2022 | Social Democratic Party | |
| Sven-Olof Sällström | 2022–2023 | Sweden Democrats | |
| Lars Wistedt | 2023–2024 | Sweden Democrats | |
| Matheus Enholm | 2025– | Sweden Democrats | |