Barry Jones, Baron Jones

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Template:Infobox officeholder Stephen Barry Jones, Baron Jones Template:Postnominals (born 26 June 1938)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> is a British Labour Party politician who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1970 to 2001, and since then as a life peer.

Early life

Jones was educated at Hawarden Grammar School and Bangor College of Education. A teacher, he was president of the Flint County National Union of Teachers. He also served for two years in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers.

Political career

Jones first stood for Parliament in Northwich in 1966, without success, although he reduced the Conservative majority from 4,385 to 703. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for East Flintshire from 1970 to 1983.<ref name="BBC honours">The Queen's Birthday Honours: Norma Major honoured for fundraising, BBC News, 12 June 1999. Retrieved 2013-06-07.</ref>

He was a parliamentary under-secretary of state for Wales from 1974 to 1979, and became MP for Alyn and Deeside in 1983.<ref name="BBC honours" />

In 1994, Jones was appointed by the Prime Minister as a member of the then new Intelligence and Security Committee, on which he served until 2001; when the Committee was dissolved at that year's general election, Jones retired from the House of Commons and was made a life peer with the title Baron Jones, of Deeside in the County of Clwyd,<ref>Template:London Gazette</ref> as was Dale Campbell-Savours, who had served on the Committee since 1997. Jones was replaced as Alyn and Deeside MP by Mark Tami.

In the 1999 Queen's Birthday Honours, Jones was made a member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom.<ref name="BBC honours" />

Other positions

In 2007 he was elected as President of NEWI (Glyndŵr University).<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> He was installed as Chancellor of the university in 2009.<ref>"Celebration for newest university", BBC Wales News, 28 February 2009. Retrieved 1 November 2013.</ref>

Lord Jones was elected vice president of the charity Attend<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> in 2013 and currently holds this position.

He was also appointed and currently holds the title of President of the Deeside Business Forum, a business advocacy forum for companies based on Deeside Industrial Park.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Lord Jones currently holds the title of President of the Army Cadet Force Association Wales,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

As of 2023, Lord Jones was also appointed President to 2247 (Hawarden) Squadron, Air Training Corps.

President on Connah's Quay unit 91 of the sea cadet corps

Personal life

Jones is a fan of Everton Football Club.<ref>Template:Cite webTemplate:Full citation needed</ref>