Darren Jones


Darren Jones

Official portrait, 2024
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
Assumed office
5 September 2025
Prime MinisterKeir Starmer
Preceded byPat McFadden
Chief Secretary to the Prime Minister
Assumed office
1 September 2025
Prime MinisterKeir Starmer
Preceded byOffice established
Chief Secretary to the Treasury
In office
5 July 2024 – 1 September 2025
Prime MinisterKeir Starmer
Preceded byLaura Trott
Succeeded byJames Murray
Chair of the Business and Trade Select Committee[a]
In office
6 May 2020 – 4 September 2023
Preceded byRachel Reeves
Succeeded byLiam Byrne
Member of Parliament
for Bristol North West
Assumed office
8 June 2017
Preceded byCharlotte Leslie
Majority15,669 (32.3%)
Personal details
Born
Darren Paul Jones

(1986-11-13) 13 November 1986
Bristol, England
Political partyLabour
Spouse(s)Lucy Symons-Jones
Children3
Alma materUniversity of Plymouth
University of the West
of England

University of Law
WebsiteOfficial website

Darren Paul Jones (born 13 November 1986) is a British Labour politician serving as the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster since 2025. He was the Chief Secretary to the Treasury from 2024 until 2025. Before, he was the Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury from 2023 to 2024. He previously served as Chair of the House of Commons Business and Trade Select Committee from 2020 to 2023. He has been the Member of Parliament for Bristol North West since 2017.

He was a lawyer specialising in technology law, and worked at Womble Bond Dickinson LLP, before becoming an in-house counsel with BT, advising on data, privacy, cyber-security, telecommunications and consumer law.[1]

Notes

  1. As Chair of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee from 2020 to 2023.

References

  1. Ashcroft, Esme (2017-06-09). "Bristol North West Labour candidate profile - Darren Jones". Bristol Live. Retrieved 2024-02-08.