Jason Stockwood, Baron Stockwood
The Lord Stockwood | |
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| Minister of State for Investment | |
| Assumed office 6 September 2025 | |
| Prime Minister | Keir Starmer |
| Preceded by | The Baroness Gustafsson |
| Member of the House of Lords | |
| Life peerage 9 October 2025 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Jason Stockwood July 1970 (age 55) Grimsby, Lincolnshire, England |
| Citizenship | United Kingdom |
| Party | Labour |
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Jason Stockwood, Baron Stockwood (born July 1970) is an English businessman who is joint majority shareholder and former chairman of Grimsby Town F.C.
Having graduated with a Bachelor of Philosophy (BPhil), he moved into the travel business and has previously held roles as the managing director of Travelocity, non-executive of Skyscanner and commercial roles with lastminute.com. He is also the former international managing director of dating website Match.com. In 2010 he joined Simply Business, a tech start up in financial services where he was group CEO.
He was the Labour Party candidate for the 2025 Greater Lincolnshire mayoral election. In September 2025, he was appointed to the British government as Minister of State for Investment, jointly serving in the Department of Business and Trade and HM Treasury. As it is convention that all ministers sit in one of the two Houses of Parliament, he received a life peerage to sit in the House of Lords.