Rt Hon Darren Jones, MP for Bristol North West
Darren Jones has been an MP since 2017.
Roles and committees
Posts held in government or opposition, and committee seats, as Parliament records them.
In government
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Minister for Intergovernmental Relations (Cabinet Office) | 2025 to 2026 | |
| Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (Cabinet Office) | 2025 to 2026 | |
| Minister of State (Chief Secretary to the Prime Minister) (Cabinet Office) | 2025 to 2026 | |
| Chief Secretary to the Treasury (HM Treasury) | 2024 to 2025 |
In opposition
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury (HM Treasury) | 2023 to 2024 |
Committees
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Powers of Attorney Bill | 2023 | |
| Business and Trade Sub-Committee on National Security and Investment | 2022 to 2023 | |
| Down Syndrome Bill | 2022 | |
| Liaison Sub-Committee on Scrutiny of Strategic Thinking in Government | 2021 to 2023 | |
| Draft Online Safety Bill (Joint Committee) | 2021 to 2024 | |
| Liaison Committee (Commons) | 2020 to 2023 | |
| National Security Strategy (Joint Committee) | 2020 to 2024 | |
| Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Committee | 2020 to 2023 |
Show the other 3
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Science and Technology Committee (Commons) | 2020 to 2021 | |
| European Scrutiny Committee | 2017 to 2019 | |
| Science and Technology Committee (Commons) | 2017 to 2019 |
Source: UK Parliament Members API · Parliament’s own page
Declared interests
MPs must publish certain paid work, gifts, donations and other interests. This is a record of what they declared, not a suggestion that anything is wrong.
Darren Jones has 3 interests currently registered.
| Type | What was registered | Registered |
|---|---|---|
| Donations and other support (including loans) for activities as an MP | Penpole Events Limited - £2,820.00 | 24 Nov 2025 |
| Donations and other support (including loans) for activities as an MP | Lord David Sainsbury of Turville - £44,400.00 | 15 Oct 2025 |
| Miscellaneous | 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. | 11 Mar 2019 |
Source: Register of Members’ Financial Interests · Parliament’s own page
Questions
MPs can ask ministers questions in writing. The questions show what an MP is working on, which votes cannot.
Darren Jones asked 3 written questions in the last 12 months.
Who they asked
Latest questions
Source: Written Questions API · Updated 4 Oct 2026
Expenses
MPs claim back money for running an office and working in two places. An independent body, IPSA, publishes every claim. This is what was paid in 2025-26.
47 claims. For comparison, across the 657 MPs in IPSA’s file the middle MP was paid £18,469 and the average was £19,699.
Source: IPSA, individual business costs data · About this data
Election result and area
Darren Jones represents Bristol North West. Here is who won there at the last general election, and a few numbers about the area.
Labour
votes ahead of second place
of people who could vote did
Darren Jones won with 50% of the votes, and Mary Page (Green Party) came second with 17%.
Votes for each party
Every candidate
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Darren Jones | Labour | 24,058 | 49.6% |
| Mary Page | Green Party | 8,389 | 17.3% |
| Laura Saunders | Conservative | 6,773 | 14.0% |
| Scarlett O'Connor | Reform UK | 4,863 | 10.0% |
| Caroline Gooch | Liberal Democrat | 4,159 | 8.6% |
| Ben Smith | Social Democratic Party | 222 | 0.5% |
2024 General Election, on today’s boundaries. Source: House of Commons Library via the Members API.
Your area at a glance
Median gross weekly pay, 2025. Source: ONS, Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings.
Share of people aged 16 to 64, August 2026. Source: ONS and DWP claimant count.
How they vote
In the last 12 months Darren Jones took part in 75 Commons votes.
More detail on how they vote
Darren Jones voted the same way as their party in 74 of the 74 votes where parties gave instructions (100%), and went the other way in 0.
What does this mean?
Parties tell their MPs how to vote. Most MPs usually follow that. A high or low count says nothing on its own about whether an MP is good or bad, and we do not rank MPs by it. We only count votes where parties gave instructions, not free votes. How we count it
Recent votes
| Date | Vote | They voted | Compared with party |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 Sep | End of life for terminally ill adults: the first main vote | Against | Free vote |
| 10 Sep | Social housing: an attempt to block it | Against | Same as party |
| 8 Sep | Health: a proposed change | Against | Same as party |
| 8 Sep | Health: a proposed change | Against | Same as party |
| 8 Sep | Health: a proposed change | Against | Same as party |
| 8 Sep | Health: a proposed change | Against | Same as party |
See every vote on Parliament’s site
Has this changed over time?
View data table
| Month | This MP | Party average |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 25 | 100% | 100% |
| Nov 25 | 100% | 100% |
| Dec 25 | 100% | 100% |
| Jan 26 | 100% | 100% |
| Feb 26 | 100% | 100% |
| Mar 26 | 100% | 100% |
| Apr 26 | 100% | 100% |
| May 26 | 100% | 100% |
| Jun 26 | 100% | 100% |
| Sep 26 | 100% | 100% |
Source: Commons Votes API
This page states what the record shows. It does not say why an MP voted as they did. How we calculate this