MP Marcus Jones MP for Nuneaton speaking at a meeting prior to the 2015 General Election. 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.
