Minister of State (Minister for Investment)
Responsibilities
His portfolio includes:
- Office for Investment聽聽
- Investor Relations聽聽
- investment events聽聽
- investment delivery聽聽
- life sciences聽聽
- GREAT Board
Current role holder
Jason Stockwood
Jason Stockwood was appointed Minister of State (Minister for Investment) jointly in the Department for Business and Trade and HM Treasury on 6 September 2025.
Prior to entering government, Jason held leadership and board roles at Simply Business, Match.com, Skyscanner, and lastminute.com. He also invested in early-stage technology companies and was a limited partner in several venture funds.
Jason is the co-owner and former Chair of Grimsby Town Football Club. He co-founded Our Future, a charity established with local leaders to support long-term renewal in post-industrial towns.
Jason has been a Transformational Leadership Fellow at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford. In 2018, he published 鈥楻eboot: A Blueprint for Happy, Human Business in the Digital Age鈥� and he has written articles for national newspapers on football, politics, and society.