The Rt Hon. the Lord Jones
Labour
Member of the House of Lords
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Lord Jones's full title is The Rt Hon. the Lord Jones. His name is Stephen Barry Jones, and he is a current member of the House of Lords.
Allowance claims · 2026
Data not yet released for 2026 — the Lords Finance Office publishes monthly CSVs ~6-8 weeks after month-end.
Lords votes · 2026
162 divisions
1 Content(0.6%)
80 Not-Content(49.4%)
81 didn't vote(50.0%)
2026-04-27
Not-Content
58–138
Not-Content
2026-04-23
Not-Content
152–207
Not-Content
2026-04-13
Not-Content
69–332
Not-Content
2026-03-26
Not-Content
64–140
Not-Content
2026-03-24
Not-Content
80–166
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2026-02-04
Not-Content
62–295
Not-Content
2026-01-12
Not-Content
201–169
Content
Source: lordsvotes-api.parliament.uk. "Result" shows the headline
Content vs Not-Content tally (including tellers). The Lords doesn't
publish a "didn't vote" attendance roll like the Commons, so the
figure above conflates absence with abstention.
Recent Hansard contributions · latest 25
2026-06-10
Farming and Food Production
My Lords, does my noble friend the Minister acknowledge the very real contribution to the farming industry of the upland farmers, not least cefn gwlad in the lovely land of Wales, the Pennine farmers and the many uplands in Scotland and the Cheviots, for
2026-04-23
Steel Sector
My Lord, can my noble friend the Minister indicate what further helpful measures there may be for this beleaguered industry in terms of energy costs? Green taxes, which are necessary, have dealt severe blows to the long-term prospects for steel, and in W
2026-03-23
UK Steel Strategy
I ask, for Wales, if the Minister can help.
2026-03-23
UK Steel Strategy
My Lords, I thank the Minister for her Statement, delivered persuasively and helpfully. What good news might be given for the steelworkers of Wales? We once had a mighty industry, up until the late 1970s. Not any more. We employed tens of thousands in th
Shall there be an answer to the question about paragraph 5.3 of the Explanatory Memorandum? I am not sure I heard my noble friend answer that.
Did I hear the Minister answer the question on paragraph 5.3 of the Explanatory Memorandum about automated data matching and privacy?
My Lords, it is always instructive to follow the noble Baroness. I thank the Minister for his shrewd analytical introduction and his insight. Tangentially, for me, it conjured up memories of chilblains, hot-water bottles and ice on the inside of the wind
My Lords, I thank my noble friend for her helpful and informative remarks. Skills and training are crucial for Britain, struggling to keep her place in a very competitive global market, and this board is a great and important player in British skilling.
I thank the Minister for her masterly summation of these most welcome regulations, yet again—some of us here are the usual suspects in debate—for having some little insight as to what they mean for our communities and from whence they came as legislative
My Lords, surely these instruments must be welcomed, and surely we all want a smarter regulatory framework. I thank the Minister for his helpful and concise outlining of the regulations and the order. There is a lot of business ahead and time is of the e
My Lords, I thank the Minister for his informed and expert introduction to these timely regulations. When he and I were serving in another place, we were contiguous neighbours; I saw how he was ubiquitous, conscientious, much liked and very successful as
My Lords, it is always instructive to follow the noble Baroness, Lady McIntosh. I thank the Minister for her persuasive, well-informed introduction. I do not quite know how George Orwell—Mr Blair—would view these regulations, because he had it in for Nap
My Lords, I thank the Minister for his helpful and instructive introduction and wish well the aims of this order. Saturday’s great London parade ending at the palace was a magnificent event, helping towards national unity, pride and patriotism. I recall
I thank the Minister for his geographic exactitude. When I think upon the names he mentioned, not much of north Wales is left out.
My Lords, time is of the essence, so I will be brief. I thank the Minister for his compassionate introduction. He has been so good as to indicate, unasked and informatively, where the pilot areas are. He mentioned my homeland, north Wales. I wonder wheth
2025-05-06
Whiplash Injury (Amendment) Regulations 2025
My Lords, it is good to follow the noble Lord, Lord Marks, and his committed statement. I thank the Minister for his helpful and thoughtful introduction.
I rise on the principle that the Executive should be held to account—in this instance briefly and
My Lords, it is instructive to follow the noble Lord, Lord Sikka, who has a professorial exactitude that excites considerable interest in someone such as me. I thank the Minister for the precision, cogency and persuasiveness of her introduction. I rise
2025-03-03
Pneumoconiosis etc. (Workers’ Compensation) (Payment of Claims) (Amendment) Regulations 2025
My Lords, I thank the Minister for her introductory exposition of these regulations, which one can only support wholeheartedly. There could be no more caring and compassionate Minister to introduce them. The Minister has a brilliant record on detail, res
2025-01-13
Registrar (Identity Verification and Authorised Corporate Service Providers) Regulations 2024
My Lords, I rise on the principle that the Executive should be accountable. I shall be brief. I thank the Minister for shedding some light on these dense and complicated regulations. They are obviously of help to the department, to Ministers and to busin
My Lords, I thank the Minister for his informative remarks, made in the most clear and precise tones imaginable. I acknowledge also my appreciation of the manner in which these regulations have been drawn up and the helpfulness of the Explanatory Memoran
2024-12-02
Great British Nuclear: Modular Reactors
My Lords, will my noble friend the Minister please consider how we might give good news to those sites in north-west Wales, principally the Wylfa plant in Ynys Môn—Anglesey—now dormant, and Trawsfynydd in Meirionnydd, now dormant? The communities around
2024-11-12
House of Lords Reform
My Lords, the debate is the better for hearing the noble Baroness, Lady Sanderson. I thought the Leader of the House made a very well- judged and apposite speech.
The villainous butler to Lord Meldrum, Stokes, in the situation comedy “You Rang, M’Lord
2024-10-15
Infected Blood Inquiry
My Lords, it is good to hear the compassionate remarks of the noble Baroness, Lady Berridge. I thank the Minister for her committed and comprehensive speech and wish her well in her ministerial life ahead. I declare that I have answered a questionnaire
2024-09-10
Foreign Direct Investment to the UK
My Lords, I too thank the noble Lord, Lord Harrington, and it is always instructive to hear the noble Lord, Lord Bilimoria. I want to see more foreign direct investment and see it invested in Wales’s remaining steel industry. I want to see the global com
2024-05-13
Carbon Dioxide Transport and Storage Revenue Support (Directions and Counterparty) Regulations 2024
My Lords, I thank the Minister for his explanatory and informative remarks, for these regulations are complexities for the uninitiated in these deceptively thinly paged dual sets of regulations. Surely, they are regulations to be welcomed. It is the war
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Party history
1970-06-18 → present
Labour
current
Government posts
1974-03-07 → 1979-05-04
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Welsh Office)
Opposition posts
1988-07-01 → 1992-04-09
Shadow Secretary of State
1983-06-11 → 1987-06-11
Shadow Secretary of State
Committee memberships
1979-05-03 → 1982-11-15
Public Accounts Committee
2012-06-28 → 2012-11-28
Draft Communications Data Bill (Joint Committee)
2013-10-28 → 2013-12-16
Inheritance and Trustees’ Powers Bill [HL]
2014-06-12 → 2015-02-25
Extradition Law
2015-06-08 → 2019-07-01
Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee
2024-10-31 → present
Ecclesiastical Committee
2020-02-11 → 2024-05-30
Ecclesiastical Committee
2022-02-02 → 2025-01-30
Committee of Selection (Lords)
2022-02-22 → present
Standing Orders (Private Bills) Committee (Lords)
2025-01-30 → present
Procedure and Privileges Committee
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APPGs (2026) · 1 active officership(s)
| Group | Role(s) | Funders | Officers in group | Next deadline |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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All-Party Parliamentary Group on Mersey Dee North Wales
Subject Group
|
Vice Chair | — | 4 | 2023-11-15 |
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Written parliamentary questions · 2026
No written questions tabled in 2026.
Bills sponsored & supported · 2026
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No bills sponsored or supported in 2026.
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year. The "Sponsored" tag = lead sponsor; "Supported" = backed at
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