At a glanceDarren Jones is a Labour MP for Bristol North West, and has represented the seat for 9 years, 1 month. They have cast 221 votes in Commons divisions (38% attendance), tabled 593 written questions and registered 3 financial interests.
Attendance is votes cast as a share of the 575 Commons divisions since the 2024 election; Darren Jones did not vote in 354. A rebellion is a vote against the way most of their own party voted; free votes, where no party line applies, are left out.
Party-loyalty figures are our own analysis of the official voting records (recorded votes only; they do not describe the formal whip). How we work this out.
Biography
He currently holds the Government posts of Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Minister for Intergovernmental Relations, and Minister of State (Chief Secretary to the Prime Minister).
Current roles
- Bristol North West Representation · Elected 1 time since 4 Jul 2024
- Labour Party since 8 Jun 2017
Voting record
Voting alignment
Votes most like
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Sojan Joseph
Labour
100.0% · 219 of 219 shared votes
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Paul Waugh
Labour (Co-op)
100.0% · 212 of 212 shared votes
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Sean Woodcock
Labour
100.0% · 211 of 211 shared votes
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Gurinder Singh Josan
Labour
100.0% · 210 of 210 shared votes
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Liz Twist
Labour
100.0% · 210 of 210 shared votes
Votes least like
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George Freeman
Conservative
0.8% · 1 of 125 shared votes
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Sir Mel Stride
Conservative
0.9% · 1 of 110 shared votes
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Chris Philp
Conservative
1.4% · 2 of 142 shared votes
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Sir Roger Gale
Conservative
1.4% · 2 of 138 shared votes
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Victoria Atkins
Conservative
1.6% · 2 of 124 shared votes
Alignment figures are our own analysis of the official voting records (recorded votes only; they do not describe the formal whip). How we work this out.
Register of financial interests
From the official Register; shown as registered.
Donations and other support (including loans) for activities as an MP2
- Penpole Events Limited - £2,820.00 (registered 24 Nov 2025)
- Lord David Sainsbury of Turville - £44,400.00 (registered 15 Oct 2025)
Miscellaneous1
- I am the director of the Henacre Charitable Fund (the “Henacre Trust”) launched on 8 March 2019. This is a named trust owned and operated by the Quartet Community Foundation on my behalf. The Henacre Trust will make charitable grants to young people from Bristol North West. (registered 11 Mar 2019)
Written questions
Dangerous Dogs
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of extending the deadline for neutering dogs whose owners wish to withdraw a certificate of exemption.
Answer · 13 May 2024
For a Certificate of Exemption to remain valid, owners must arrange to have their XL Bully dog neutered and to provide evidence of this to Defra by set deadlines. These deadlines are 30 June 2024 if the dog was 12 months or older on 31 January 2024, 31 De...
Special Educational Needs: Autism
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to support young people with autism spectrum conditions who have education otherwise than at school plans.
Answer · 10 May 2024
Local authorities provide support to certain children and young people with special educational needs (SEN) through Education, Health and Care (EHC) plans. A local authority may choose, where statutory criteria are met, to make an ‘Education Otherwise tha...
Motorways: Noise
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to help limit noise pollution for people who live near motorways.
Answer · 8 May 2024
National Highways are responsible for managing and improving England’s motorways and major A roads, known as the strategic road network. National Highways use a range of measures to reduce the impact of noise on their roads including using low-noise surfa...
Immigration: Appeals
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 26 March 2024 to Question 19426 on Immigration: Appeals, how many appeals were made before the (a) First and (b) Upper Tribunal between 1 January 2019 and 31 December 2023; how many and
Answer · 23 Apr 2024
Information about appeal receipts in the First-tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) and Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) is routinely published within Tribunals Statistics Quarterly in the main tables. The total number of receipts...
Students: Transgender People
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department has taken to consult (a) transgender students, (b) the families of transgender students and (c) organisations that represent the views of transgender people on the draft guidance entit
Answer · 22 Mar 2024
From the 19 December 2023 to the 12 March 2024, the department carried out a full public consultation on the draft guidance for schools and colleges on gender questioning children. Any member of the public could respond and provide their views.
Maternity Pay: Small Businesses
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to encourage small businesses to provide statutory maternity pay to employees; and whether he has discussions with industry on this.
Answer · 26 Mar 2024
All employers have a statutory obligation to pay Statutory Maternity Pay to eligible employees. Employers are reimbursed at least 92 percent of the Statutory Maternity Pay they pay. Small employers (those who pay £45,000 or less gross NICs in the previous...
Social Security Benefits: Fraud
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he has taken to ensure benefit fraud investigations do not result in discrimination.
Answer · 26 Mar 2024
All fraud investigations are conducted in line with current legislation including Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 and the Police and Criminal Evidence Act (PACE) 1984. All staff in the department undergo Public Sector Equality Duty (PSED) trai...
Immigration: Appeals
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many allowed appeals from (a) First and (b) Upper Tribunal are awaiting implementation; and what the average time taken to implement allowed appeal decisions was in each year between 2019 and 2023
Answer · 26 Mar 2024
The requested information cannot be accurately extracted from our internal systems. To provide this information would require a manual trawl of successful appeals and to do so would incur disproportionate cost. Where an appeal has been allowed in favour o...
Speeches in the chamber
25 Jun 2026 Topical Questions
We have established a Cabinet Sub-Committee called the Middle East Response Committee, chaired by the Prime Minister, which has met weekly. I, as Chief Secretary to the Prime Minister, have chaired senior ministerial groups underpinning th…
25 Jun 2026 Topical Questions
My experience of coups is that they do not come with a memo in advance, so the hon. Member should not feel sorry for not having had one. I can assure him that those investigations are under way; I cannot yet give him a time for when they w…
25 Jun 2026 Topical Questions
I thank the hon. Member for his question. Of course, the House notes the conclusion of the criminal investigation and the judgment that was laid down in this case of embezzlement by SNP officials. That should never happen in public life, a…
25 Jun 2026 Topical Questions
I could probably refer to quite a list of appointments under the previous Administration that did not meet that test. I reassure the hon. Gentleman that public appointments are made in line with independent panels, with proper evidence and…
25 Jun 2026 Topical Questions
My hon. Friend is right. The Barnett formula plays an important role in ensuring fairness in public spending across all the nations of the United Kingdom. She is right to point out that we have given a record-breaking level of money to the…
25 Jun 2026 Topical Questions
I thank the hon. Lady for taking the opportunity to pursue further Liberal Democrat policies; she is quite right to do so. She will know of the constitutional principles that mean we cannot bind our successors. I am sure that whoever is in…
25 Jun 2026 Topical Questions
I understand the premise of the hon. Gentleman’s question, and I am sure the new Prime Minister will agree with the sentiment. We are waiting for confirmation of the timetable for the Labour party’s election of a new leader. The sitting da…
25 Jun 2026 Topical Questions
I thank the hon. Gentleman for his kind comments. He says that this might be our last time together at the Dispatch Box; I do not know where he is planning on going, but I hope to be back here in due course. He asks a very pertinent questi…
25 Jun 2026 Topical Questions
I wonder where the hon. Member for Clacton (Nigel Farage) is? [Interruption.] Not in Clacton, I am told, Mr Speaker. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Kensington and Bayswater (Joe Powell) for his question, and his continued support fo…
25 Jun 2026 Topical Questions
I begin by thanking my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister for the dedicated work that he has undertaken since becoming leader of the Labour party. Following the crushing defeat that we experienced in 2019, he led our party to a landslide…
25 Jun 2026 Lord Mandelson Humble Address: Government Response
All the documentation that the Government hold has been published in the first two tranches, except for the documentation that the Metropolitan police have asked for, which we have given to them as part of their investigation. The only rem…
25 Jun 2026 Lord Mandelson Humble Address: Government Response
It is not necessarily for me to give advice to the hon. Gentleman, but I would not always believe the reporting in the Daily Mail. On which documents the Metropolitan police have requested, as I have said repeatedly from the Dispatch Box, …
25 Jun 2026 Lord Mandelson Humble Address: Government Response
With permission, Mr Speaker, may I refer to my 11 previous statements that answered that question?
25 Jun 2026 Lord Mandelson Humble Address: Government Response
I see that the House has been waiting for me. I am starting to prepare myself for a quieter life, and it was nice to have the opportunity to start that this morning. On 11 March and 1 June, the Government published two tranches of docum…
3 Jun 2026 Lord Mandelson: Response to Humble Address
I say politely to the hon. Lady that I have already answered all of those questions. The Government will continue their review with Sir Adrian Fulford, looking at recommendations for the national security vetting system arising from the…
3 Jun 2026 Lord Mandelson: Response to Humble Address
Again, I do not know which documents the Metropolitan police have, so I cannot speak to them specifically, but I share the sentiment of the right hon. Gentleman’s point. The shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster asked me to confir…
3 Jun 2026 Lord Mandelson: Response to Humble Address
I share the expectation of my right hon. Friend that there would be a difference between commercial mitigations—for example, what investments there may be in particular companies—and mitigations that may have arisen from national security …
3 Jun 2026 Lord Mandelson: Response to Humble Address
As an extension of that question, the shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster asked me to comment on how this relates to Morgan McSweeney’s messages. I am afraid that I did not conduct that conversation or investigation, so I cannot an…
3 Jun 2026 Lord Mandelson: Response to Humble Address
I have tried to explain the answer to that question a number of times. There was no decision to disregard any messages because there are no messages to consider. What I confirmed on Monday was that I have had WhatsApp exchanges with Peter …
3 Jun 2026 Lord Mandelson: Response to Humble Address
The hon. Gentleman misunderstands: there were no messages to consider and that is different.
Source: contributions on parliament.uk.
Full parliamentary career
Government posts
- Minister for Intergovernmental Relations · Cabinet Office 6 Sep 2025 – 20 Jul 2026
- Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster · Cabinet Office 5 Sep 2025 – 20 Jul 2026
- Minister of State (Chief Secretary to the Prime Minister) · Cabinet Office 1 Sep 2025 – 20 Jul 2026
- Chief Secretary to the Treasury · HM Treasury 5 Jul 2024 – 1 Sep 2025
Opposition posts
- Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury · HM Treasury 4 Sep 2023 – 30 May 2024
Committee memberships
- Draft Online Safety Bill (Joint Committee) 21 Jul 2021 – 30 May 2024
- National Security Strategy (Joint Committee) 11 May 2020 – 15 Jan 2024
- Business and Trade Sub-Committee on National Security and Investment · Chair 28 Jun 2022 – 4 Sep 2023
- Liaison Sub-Committee on Scrutiny of Strategic Thinking in Government 22 Sep 2021 – 4 Sep 2023
- Liaison Committee (Commons) 20 May 2020 – 4 Sep 2023
- Business and Trade Committee · Chair 6 May 2020 – 4 Sep 2023
- Powers of Attorney Bill 22 Feb 2023 – 1 Mar 2023
- Down Syndrome Bill 19 Jan 2022 – 26 Jan 2022
- Science, Innovation and Technology Committee 2 Mar 2020 – 22 Feb 2021
- European Scrutiny Committee 30 Oct 2017 – 6 Nov 2019
- Science, Innovation and Technology Committee 11 Sep 2017 – 6 Nov 2019
Previous seats
- Bristol North West · Elected 2 times 8 Jun 2017 – 30 May 2024
Elections contested
- Bristol North West 7 May 2015
- Torridge and West Devon 6 May 2010
Expenses
Contact & offices
0207 219 5225
Parliamentary office
House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA
Constituency office
Constituency Office
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about Darren Jones, answered from official Parliament data.
Who is Darren Jones?
Darren Jones is a Member of Parliament representing Bristol North West in the House of Commons. See Darren Jones's official Parliament profile.
Which party does Darren Jones represent?
Darren Jones sits as Labour. See Darren Jones's official Parliament profile.
Which constituency does Darren Jones represent?
Darren Jones is the Member of Parliament for Bristol North West. See Darren Jones's official Parliament profile.
How long has Darren Jones been an MP?
Darren Jones has served in the House of Commons for 9 years, 1 month. See Darren Jones's official Parliament profile.
What registered interests are listed for Darren Jones?
Darren Jones has 3 entries in the Register of Members' Financial Interests. See Darren Jones's official Parliament profile.
Source: this MP's official Parliament profile. Last updated 26 Jul 2026.