Jon Owen Jones
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Jon Owen Jones | |
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Member of Parliament for Cardiff Central | |
In office 9 April 1992 – 11 April 2005 | |
Preceded by | Ian Grist |
Succeeded by | Jenny Willott |
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Wales | |
In office 29 July 1998[1] – 29 July 1999 Alongside Lord Commissioner of the Treasury | |
In office 6 May 1997 – 28 July 1998 | |
Prime Minister | Tony Blair |
Preceded by | Patrick McLoughlin |
Succeeded by | David Jamieson |
Personal details | |
Born | Labour Co-operative (until 2019) | 19 April 1954
Spouse | Allison Owen Jones |
Children | Rhys Jones, Owen Jones, Bronwen Jones |
Alma mater | University of East Anglia, Cardiff University |
Jonathan Owen Jones (born 19 April 1954) is a Welsh politician. He was the Labour and Co-operative Member of Parliament for Cardiff Central from 1992 to 2005. He was then an unsuccessful candidate for Change UK in Wales at the 2019 European Parliament election.
Early life
Jon Owen Jones was born in
Parliamentary career
Jones was the Labour and Co-operative MP for the Cardiff Central constituency from 1992 to 2005. He was a whip from 1993 to 1998, then a junior minister at the Welsh Office until 1999. He won his seat again in 2001 with a majority of 659. He lost his seat at the 2005 general election to Jenny Willott of the Liberal Democrats.
As part of the investigation into United Kingdom parliamentary expenses scandal, Jones was found to have over claimed £513.10.[3]
Post-parliament
He chaired the Forestry Commission's National Committee for Wales until April 2013, when its duties were subsumed by Natural Resources Wales, with Jones snubbed from the NRW board by Welsh Labour Environment Minister John Griffiths.[4]
In April 2019, It was announced that he would be the lead candidate for Change UK in Wales in the 2019 European Elections.[5] He was not elected.
References
- ^ http://researchbriefings.intranet.parliament.uk/ResearchBriefing/Summary/SN06065[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 29 April 2019.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Expenses: MPs with outstanding balances". Politics.co.uk. 4 February 2010. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
- ^ Shipton, Martin (25 October 2012). "Jon Owen Jones kept off the board of Natural Resources Wales". walesonline.
- ^ "Former Labour MP and minister named as ChangeUK candidate in Wales Euro election". ITV News. 23 April 2019. Retrieved 23 April 2019.