Sarah Jones, MP for Croydon West
Sarah Jones has been an MP since 2017. Currently: Minister of State (Home Office).
Roles and committees
Posts held in government or opposition, and committee seats, as Parliament records them.
In government
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Minister of State (Home Office) (Home Office) | 2025 to now | Now |
| Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero) (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero) | 2024 to 2025 | |
| Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Department for Business and Trade) | 2024 to 2025 |
In opposition
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Shadow Minister (Industry and Decarbonisation) (Department for Business and Trade) | 2023 to 2024 | |
| Shadow Minister (Home Office) (Home Office) | 2020 to 2023 | |
| Shadow Minister (Housing, Communities and Local Government) (Housing) (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government) | 2018 to 2020 |
Committees
| Post | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Public Order Bill | 2022 | |
| Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill | 2021 | |
| Home Affairs Committee | 2017 to 2018 |
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.
Sarah Jones has 1 interests currently registered.
| Type | What was registered | Registered |
|---|---|---|
| Family members engaged in third-party lobbying | Joseph Jones employed as Lobbyist | 28 Apr 2021 |
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.
Sarah Jones has not asked any written questions in the last 12 months. Government ministers cannot ask them, so this can simply reflect an MP’s role.
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.
64 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
Sarah Jones represents Croydon 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
Sarah Jones won with 54% of the votes, and Simon Fox (Conservative) came second with 17%.
Votes for each party
Every candidate
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sarah Jones | Labour | 20,612 | 54.1% |
| Simon Fox | Conservative | 6,386 | 16.8% |
| Ria Patel | Green Party | 3,851 | 10.1% |
| Jahir Hussain | Liberal Democrat | 3,667 | 9.6% |
| Vinayak Malhotra | Reform UK | 2,148 | 5.6% |
| Ahsan Ullah | Workers Party of Britain | 708 | 1.9% |
| Donna Murray-Turner | Taking The Initiative Party | 503 | 1.3% |
| April Ashley | Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition | 247 | 0.6% |
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 Sarah Jones took part in 136 Commons votes.
More detail on how they vote
Sarah Jones voted the same way as their party in 136 of the 136 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 Sep | Health: a proposed change | Against | Same as party |
| 7 Sep | Health: a proposed change | Against | Same as party |
| 14 Jul | Accountability of public officials: a proposed change | Against | Same as party |
| 14 Jul | Accountability of public officials: a proposed change | Against | Same as party |
| 14 Jul | Accountability of public officials: a proposed change | Against | Same as party |
| 13 Jul | Immigration and asylum: the first main vote | For | 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% |
| Jul 26 | 100% | 99% |
| 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