Luke Pollard was elected as the Labour and Co-operative Member of Parliament for Plymouth Sutton and Devonport in June 2017, and re-elected in both 2019 and 2024. He has served on Labours front bench in opposition as the Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, and between 2022 and 2024 as Shadow MinAF; he was also Vice-Chair of the All-Party Armed Forces Group. He has completed all five years of courses on the Armed Forces Parliamentary Scheme. In parliament he has proposed a new bill to recycle the retired nuclear submarines tied up alongside his Devonport constituency. During the scheme he visited the British Army forward deployed forces in Estonia and training operations in Oman. Luke Pollard was appointed Minister for the Armed Forces in the Ministry of Defence on 9 July 2024. His portfolio includes recruitment and readiness, Afghan resettlement and relocation, Ukraine support, the Armed Forces Commissioner, climate change and sustainability, force generation, posture and deployment, global operational policy and commitments, crisis response, Permanent Joint Operating Bases, military aid to civilian authorities, national resilience, and the Armed Forces Parliamentary Scheme.