Croydon West.

Serving as Minister of State for Policing and Crime is the defining fact about Sarah Jones right now. In March 2026 she delivered the long-awaited Orgreave Inquiry, meeting campaigners personally and publicly committing to transparency -- coverage across multiple outlets scored this as strongly positive for her. Her ministerial role shapes almost everything: she sits on no select committees, votes 100% with Labour, and has not once rebelled since entering the House in 2017.

That perfect party-line record comes with a caveat -- at 53% voting participation, she attends well under half of all Commons divisions, which is below the typical MP average and consistent with the heavy demands of ministerial office. Where her stance profile diverges from Labour colleagues, two gaps stand out: she is notably harder on crime than the party average and notably softer on assisted dying access. Her 761 contributions across 113 debates skew heavily toward economy and jobs, crime, and energy -- the last two tracking her ministerial brief closely. Recent votes support tightening asylum support rules and backing the government's reserve power over pension fund investment, both straightforward loyalty calls.

The one shadow over her local record is a December 2025 report from Inside Croydon, which found her office unstaffed during a constituent visit over a Palestine hunger striker, with no reply to correspondence and no signature on an Early Day Motion signed by more than 50 other MPs. Her office has not publicly responded to that criticism. Overall, Jones is a ministerially active MP whose parliamentary footprint is shaped almost entirely by her government role; independent scrutiny work is limited while she holds that brief. Data here draws on TheyWorkForYou voting records and local news aggregation.