Kevan David Jones, Baron Beamish, PC (born 25 April 1964), is a British Labour Party politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for North Durham from 2001 to 2024.

He attended Portland Comprehensive School in Worksop and Newcastle Polytechnic,[1] before studying at the University of Southern Maine, gaining a BA (Hons) in Government and Public Policy.

Before becoming an MP, he was a Newcastle upon Tyne councillor from 1990 to 2001 and Chairman of the Development Committee as well as an elected officer of the GMB Union.

His Private member's bill, the Christmas Day (Trading) Act 2004,[4] successfully passed Parliament, and came into force in December 2004.

Jones, who had tabled Parliamentary questions on Army officials' spending before becoming a minister,[7] denied the allegations and said he had a good working relationship with Dannatt.

[11][12] In 2017, Jones said that while in office he had sought to revoke the government's agreement with Annington Homes, by which the MoD agreed to rent back military housing sold to the company under the John Major government in 1996, while allowing the company to sell homes the armed forces no longer required, but found it impossible to do so.

[17] Jones became a member of the special Select Committee set up to scrutinise the Bill that became the Armed Forces Act 2011.

"[22] Jones later supported Owen Smith in the failed attempt to replace Jeremy Corbyn in the 2016 Labour leadership election.

Jones responded that the remarks "belong in the dark ages" and that mental health should not be used to attack political differences.