Ruth Jones — Hear, Hear

Voting record

4

Voted for

0

Voted against

5

Didn’t vote

Based on 9 recorded Commons divisions at Second or Third Reading of bills tracked by Hear, Hear — not a full voting record. “Didn’t vote” means Parliament has no vote recorded for them in that division (absent, abstained, paired, or excused). See the All votes tab below for every division.

See Ruth Jones’s full voting record on Parliament’s site →

Bill votes All votes Live bills

Whip meter Estimate 98%

How often Ruth Jones voted the same way as most of the Labour party, across every recorded division. Parliament doesn’t publish whether a vote was officially whipped, so this is our best estimate from the public record — not a confirmed fact.

Recent votes

Representation of the People Bill — voted didn't vote at 3rd reading

Immigration and Asylum Bill — voted Aye at 2nd reading

Railways Bill — voted Aye at 3rd reading

Courts and Tribunals Bill — voted Aye at 2nd reading

Railways Bill — voted Aye at 2nd reading

Northern Ireland Troubles Bill — voted didn't vote at 2nd reading

Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill — voted didn't vote at 3rd reading

Government & opposition roles

Ruth Jones doesn’t currently hold a government or shadow front-bench post, but has in the past. See Government for who else currently holds one.

Previously held

Shadow Minister (Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (2020-08-12 to 2024-05-30) Shadow

Declared financial interests

From Parliament’s Register of Members’ Financial Interests — Parliament’s official register for Ruth Jones →. Topic tags below are our own automated, best-effort keyword match, not Parliament’s classification.

2. (b) Any other support not included in Category 2(a)

Name of donor: Labour Animal Welfare Society
Address of donor: 30 Station Road, Carlton, Nottingham NG4 3AX
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: Policy support in relation to my private members' bill, value £1,660.08
Date received: 15 October 2025 to 15 October 2025
Date accepted: 15 October 2025
Donor status: other (Member's Association)
(Registered 20 October 2025)

3. Gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources

Name of donor: Channel 4 Television Company Limited
Address of donor: 124 Horseferry Road, London SW1P 2TX
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: Two tickets to the BAFTA Cymru Awards ceremony, including dinner, value £468
Date received: 5 October 2025
Date accepted: 5 October 2025
Donor status: company, registration 01533774
(Registered 28 October 2025)

8. Miscellaneous

I am a patron of Edengate, a charity based in Newport that works with homeless people. This is an unpaid role.
Date interest arose: 1 May 2025
(Registered 8 May 2025)

I am a trustee of the Parliamentary Christian Trust. This is an unpaid role.
Date interest arose: 6 May 2025
(Registered 8 May 2025)

Written questions to government

No written questions on file for Ruth Jones yet — this only covers what Hear, Hear has fetched so far (see Written questions), not necessarily every question Ruth Jones has ever tabled.

Business costs (IPSA)

£319,903.32 paid out to or for Ruth Jones across 210 claims — combining every financial year on file, not just the current one — covering office costs, accommodation, travel, and bought-in/temporary staffing. This does not include Ruth Jones’s permanent staff’s salaries — typically the biggest single share of an MP’s real costs — which IPSA only publishes once a year, after the year closes, as one aggregate figure, never as individual claims. Some categories (especially travel) are reported by IPSA as one whole-year total rather than itemised by date — marked “Aggregated” below. See MP expenses to filter this to a single year.

By category

Staffing — £227,212.09 (1 claim)

Office Costs — £57,993.08 (167 claims)

Accommodation — £26,774.09 (26 claims)

MP Travel — £3,390.55 (5 claims)

Staff Travel — £3,383.51 (8 claims)

Miscellaneous — £1,150.00 (3 claims)

Most recent claims

Utilities — £443.37, 2026-03-25 — Electricity

Business rates — £483.50, 2026-03-25 — CCBC - ONLINE PAYMENT [200013613-11684]

Council tax — £92.89, 2026-03-20 — Council Tax for [***] [***] [***] 2025/26 (50%) [200013602-12]

Landline phone & internet - rental & usage — £132.44, 2026-03-16 — Landline

Equipment - purchase — £274.56, 2026-03-13 — Office furniture

Equipment - hire — £484.93, 2026-03-13 — Other office equipment

Stationery & printing — £203.82, 2026-03-11 — XMA March 2026

Stationery & printing — £203.82, 2026-03-05 — XMA March 2026

Every claim on file for Ruth Jones →

Early Day Motions

Ruth Jones has tabled 2 Early Day Motions on file (as primary sponsor), drawing 19 sponsor signatures in total across them. This only counts motions Ruth Jones personally tabled — not motions Ruth Jones may have added their name to as a supporter, which this data source doesn’t track per MP. See Early Day Motions for what this does and doesn’t cover.

Most recent tabled

Ruby's Law and recognising pets in domestic abuse protection orders — tabled 2026-06-01, 5 sponsors

Animal protection disclosure scheme — tabled 2026-04-13, 14 sponsors

All-Party Parliamentary Groups

Ruth Jones is a listed officer of 5 All-Party Parliamentary Groups on file. See APPGs for the full register and the biggest funders overall.

All-Party Parliamentary Dog Advisory Welfare Group — Vice Chair

No declared funding on file.

All-Party Parliamentary Group for Semiconductors — Chair & Registered Contact

Declared funding: Octric (£7,500); Queens University Belfast (£2,000); KLA (£15,000); Oxford Instruments (£10,000) and 6 more.

All-Party Parliamentary Group on Intellectual Property — Officer

Declared funding: Luther Pendragon Ltd (£7,501-9,000).

All-Party Parliamentary Group on Safeguarding in Faith Communities — Chair & Registered Contact

Declared funding: Thirtyone:eight (£1,501-3,000).

Key Cities All-Party Parliamentary Group — Vice Chair

Declared funding: Images&Co Ltd (£19,501-21,000).

Who funds these groups

Biggest declared funder across these groups: KLA — about £30,000.00 across 1 group (All-Party Parliamentary Group for Semiconductors).

KLA — about £30,000.00, 1 group

Images&Co Ltd — about £20,250.50, 1 group

Plessey Semiconductors — about £15,000.00, 1 group

Pragmatic — about £15,000.00, 1 group

Pragmatic Semiconductor — about £15,000.00, 1 group

Showing the top 5 of 12 funders.

Read this carefully: funding is declared by the group (often to pay for a secretariat that runs it), not paid to Ruth Jones personally, and declaring it is a legal requirement rather than a sign of wrongdoing. This only covers groups Ruth Jones is a listed officer of — ordinary members aren’t published. Amounts are Parliament’s own figures; where it gave a banded range the midpoint is used, so totals are approximate. Funders are grouped by name, so the same organisation spelled very differently may appear twice.