In Parliament - Lorraine Beavers MP

"You can see the record of all my contributions in Parliament below, both written and spoken." Lorraine Beavers, Member of Parliament for Blackpool North and Fleetwood

Lorraine Beavers, Member of Parliament for Blackpool North and Fleetwood

UK Infrastructure: 10-year Strategy

Commons debates

I am encouraged by the Minister’s statement, which is a plan to rebuild Britain from the mess left by the Conservatives. Can he inform the House how constituencies such as mine can take...

Topical Questions

Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Lorraine Beavers made a speech in the House of Commons

Residents of Thornton-Cleveleys in my constituency are being warned not to eat food grown in their own gardens because a local site is being investigated after testing found high concentrations...

Per- and Polyfluorinated Alkyl Substances: Taxation

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Lorraine Beavers received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he has made an assessment of the potential (a) implications for his policies of the recent tax introduced in France...

Chemicals: Pollution Control

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Lorraine Beavers received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of potential merits of recovering the costs of treating chemical pollutants in (a) drinking...

Iran-Israel Conflict

Commons debates

I have spent nearly a year in this Chamber watching our country pleading with the Israeli Government to de-escalate in Gaza. They have not. Strong words and desperate pleas have not worked. Is...

Spending Review 2025

Commons debates

I welcome the Government’s commitment to investing in Britain’s future, tearing up the old rulebook that held back constituencies like mine for too long, but my constituents need to...

Question

Lorraine Beavers received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he has taken to encourage the insourcing of public services.

Topical Questions

Lorraine Beavers made a speech in the House of Commons

Labour’s plan to make work pay promised to bring about the biggest wave of insourcing of public services in a generation. Insourced services are often shown to provide better value for...

Disadvantaged Communities - [Sir Roger Gale in the Chair]

Westminster Hall debates

I do. We have a disused railway line. Were it to be reopened, it would finally give Fleetwood the connectivity that it has so badly lacked for decades. I am heartened by reports that the...

Disadvantaged Communities - [Sir Roger Gale in the Chair]

Westminster Hall debates

My constituency has enormous potential, but it has been held back by the last 14 years of austerity. That represents a shameful neglect of not just my community, but the country. It is the duty...

Uber: Taxis

Department for Transport

Lorraine Beavers received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department plans to strengthen regulations on out-of-area working of private hire Uber vehicles.

Homelessness

Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Lorraine Beavers received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to paragraph 4.59 of the Autumn Budget 2024, published on 30 October 2024, what proportion of the...

Homelessness: Finance

Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Lorraine Beavers received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of a reviewing homelessness funding across departments.

Taxis: Fares

Department for Transport

Lorraine Beavers received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of introducing mandatory fare meters in private hire vehicles.

Uber: Taxis

Department for Transport

Lorraine Beavers received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that Uber accounts are not used by unlicensed taxi drivers.

Maritime Sector

Lorraine Beavers made a speech in the House of Commons

Fleetwood, in my constituency, has a proud fishing industry, but our port is currently massively underused. The Government’s clean power mission is a huge opportunity for ports like...

Maritime Sector

Lorraine Beavers made a speech in the House of Commons

What steps she is taking to support the maritime sector.

Engagements

Lorraine Beavers made a speech in the House of Commons

Fourteen years of Conservative cuts have stripped the Environment Agency of the resources and the staff it needs to properly deal with badly managed landfill sites blighting communities like...

Engagements

Lorraine Beavers made a speech in the House of Commons

If he will list his official engagements for Wednesday 14 May.

Coastal Communities

Commons debates

For nearly four decades, our seaside towns have shaped the outcome of elections. Yet, despite that significance, we have been overlooked, struggling with deprivation, economic decline and...