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Marcus Charles Jones (born 5 April 1974) is a Conservative Party politician in the UK who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Nuneaton since 2010, having won the seat again in 2015. Previously he had been Leader of Nuneaton and Bedworth Borough Council.
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- Immigration insights with marcus jones martyn eden premier
- Education and early career
- Local government
- House of Commons
- Elections
- Personal life
- References
Education and early career
Marcus Jones has lived in Nuneaton all his life. He grew up in Whitestone, Nuneaton, and was educated at St Thomas More Catholic School and King Edward VI College. He worked as a conveyancing manager at Tustain Jones & Co., solicitors in Nuneaton.
Local government
Marcus Jones was elected Conservative Councillor for Whitestone on the Nuneaton and Bedworth Borough Council in 2005. He was Conservative group leader from 2006–2009. In 2008 Marcus became the first Conservative Leader of Nuneaton and Bedworth, in the Council's 34-year history. He served as council leader and was also the Council's portfolio holder for Finance and Civic Affairs from 2006–2009, before standing down to concentrate on his parliamentary campaign.
House of Commons
Marcus Jones was first elected to the House of Commons in 2010, as the Member of Parliament for Nuneaton with a majority of 2,069 votes. His victory overturned a notional Labour majority of 3,850 and, as a result, he became the first Conservative MP for the town since 1992.
As an MP, Jones has campaigned for a PFI rebate, and is a member of the PFI Rebate campaign of more than 80 MPs, from all three major parties, who have been calling for savings on PFI. Marcus claims that the PFI funding under which the University Hospital in Coventry was built and is now serviced has caused a substantial cost drag, and has put huge financial pressure on health services in Warwickshire.
Jones is Chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Town Centres and has sat on the Backbench Business and Administration Select Committees. He is also an Ambassador the Federation of Small Businesses' Keep Trade Local campaign
In the general election in 2015 Nuneaton was Labour's target number 38, but Jones won the seat for a second time.
As of May 2015, Marcus Jones became Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Communities & Local Government, under the first Conservative Government for 18 years.
In January 2016, in response to a proposed law that all rented houses should be fit for human habitation, he said: “New clause 52 would result in unnecessary regulation and cost to landlords which would deter further investment and push up rents for tenants.
“Of course we believe that all homes should be of a decent standard and all tenants should have a safe place to live regardless of tenure, but local authorities already have strong and effective powers to deal with poor quality and safe accommodation and we expect them to use them.”
Elections
General Election 2010: Nuneaton
Personal life
Marcus lives with his wife Suzanne and has two young children, Oliver and Martha.