Career
Jones was selected as a Labour candidate through an all-women shortlist. However, fairly early on in Labour"s first term in government, she announced that she would not be seeking re-election at the 2001 election. She was succeeded by Rob Marris.
Prior to entering Parliament, she worked as a social worker and had served on Wolverhampton Metropolitan Borough Council from 1991 to 1997.
In 2002 she was made an honorary fellow of the University of Wolverhampton.