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 was a member of the PFI Rebate campaign of more than 80 MPs, from all three major parties, who called for savings on PFI. Jones's voting record is and has been widely inline with the rest of the Conservative party's MP's, however, there are notable exceptions, for example, Jones has voted against
same-sex marriage for
LGBT+ people. Jones has also voted multiple times to repeal the Human Rights Act (1998) and voted against largely retaining the EU "Charter of Fundamental Rights" as part of UK law following the UK's withdrawal from the European Union. Jones is Chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Town Centres and 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, Jones became
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the
Department for Communities and Local Government in the
first Cameron ministry, the first Conservative Majority 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." He voted against the proposed law, but was not one of the 72 Conservative MPs who did so whilst also being landlords themselves. In May 2016, it emerged that Jones was one of a number of Conservative MPs being investigated by police in the
United Kingdom general election, 2015 party spending investigation, for allegedly spending more than the legal limit on constituency election campaign expenses. However, in May 2017, the Crown Prosecution Service said that while there was evidence of inaccurate spending returns, it did not "meet the test" for further action. Jones was re-elected in the
2017 general election, and during the first
cabinet reshuffle of the
second May ministry, he was appointed Vice-Chair of the
Conservative Party, with responsibility for Local Government. He was again re-elected in the
2019 general election, with an increased majority of over 13,000 votes. On 13 February 2020, Jones was appointed
Vice-Chamberlain of the Household (
Government Whip) during a
cabinet reshuffle. On 17 September 2021, he was appointed
Comptroller of the Household, a senior Government Whip, in the second
cabinet reshuffle of the
second Johnson ministry. In that role, he took part in the
2023 Coronation. In the
House of Commons, Jones sat on the Administration Committee and Backbench Business Committee, and served on the Speakers Committee on the Electoral Commission. On 8 July 2022, Jones was appointed as
Housing Minister following the resignation of
Stuart Andrew during the
July 2022 United Kingdom government crisis. On 8 March 2023, he was appointed as a member of the
Privy Council. ==Post-parliamentary career==