At a glanceLorraine Beavers is a Labour MP for Blackpool North and Fleetwood, and has represented the seat for 2 years. They have cast 495 votes in Commons divisions (86% attendance), tabled 67 written questions and registered 3 financial interests.
Attendance is votes cast as a share of the 575 Commons divisions since the 2024 election; Lorraine Beavers did not vote in 80. A rebellion is a vote against the way most of their own party voted; free votes, where no party line applies, are left out.
Party-loyalty figures are our own analysis of the official voting records (recorded votes only; they do not describe the formal whip). How we work this out.
Biography
Current roles
- Labour Party since 4 Jul 2024
- Blackpool North and Fleetwood Representation · Elected 1 time since 4 Jul 2024
Voting record
Voting alignment
Votes most like
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Peter Dowd
Labour
100.0% · 359 of 359 shared votes
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Mr Jonathan Brash
Labour
99.7% · 387 of 388 shared votes
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Clive Efford
Labour
99.7% · 387 of 388 shared votes
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Steve Witherden
Labour
99.5% · 422 of 424 shared votes
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Ms Stella Creasy
Labour (Co-op)
99.5% · 419 of 421 shared votes
Votes least like
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Sir Roger Gale
Conservative
1.0% · 3 of 299 shared votes
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Sir John Whittingdale
Conservative
1.4% · 4 of 291 shared votes
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Sir Alec Shelbrooke
Conservative
1.7% · 5 of 286 shared votes
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Sir Geoffrey Cox
Conservative
1.8% · 4 of 220 shared votes
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Stuart Anderson
Conservative
1.9% · 6 of 308 shared votes
Alignment figures are our own analysis of the official voting records (recorded votes only; they do not describe the formal whip). How we work this out.
Register of financial interests
From the official Register; shown as registered.
Miscellaneous3
- Unpaid directorship at REFURB (WYRE AND FYLDE) LTD. The company is in the process of being wound up. (registered 18 Mar 2026)
- Elected Councillor on Fleetwood Town Council. This is an unpaid role (registered 18 Oct 2024)
- Deputy chair Fleetwood Beach wheelchairs. This is an unpaid role. (registered 18 Jul 2024)
Written questions
Pupils: Disadvantaged
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to tackle the under-achievement of persistently disadvantaged pupils.
Answer · 17 Jul 2026
The department is determined to do more to improve the life chances of our most disadvantaged children and to break the link between background and future success.The ‘Every Child Achieving and Thriving’ Schools White Paper establishes the departments pla...
Metabolic Dysfunction-associated Steatohepatitis
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of retiring the OHID Liver Disease Fingertips Profiles on the UK's ability to monitor steatotic liver disease indicators and meet the World Healt
Answer · 10 Jul 2026
The Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID) continues to monitor a wide range of indicators relating to steatotic liver disease, an umbrella term that includes a range of conditions where fat accumulates in liver cells causing dysfunction. In...
Metabolic Dysfunction-associated Steatohepatitis
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to integrate steatotic liver disease indicators into non-communicable disease policy and frameworks to meet the World Health Assembly resolution on steatotic liv
Answer · 15 Jul 2026
The Government recognises the importance of the World Health Assembly’s resolution on steatotic liver disease (SLD), which marks the first time liver disease has been formally recognised as part of the global agenda on noncommunicable diseases.We are taki...
Smoking
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish a Roadmap to a Smokefree country to ensure that areas like Blackpool and Fleetwood, where smoking rates are higher than the national average, can support every smoker who wants t
Answer · 10 Jul 2026
The previous Government’s ambition was to reduce adult smoking prevalence to 5% or less by 2030. We are going even further. Our ambition is to deliver a smoke-free United Kingdom and the landmark Tobacco and Vapes Act will create the first smoke-free gene...
Smoking
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether smokefree 2030 remains his Department's target.
Answer · 10 Jul 2026
The previous Government’s ambition was to reduce adult smoking prevalence to 5% or less by 2030. We are going even further. Our ambition is to deliver a smoke-free United Kingdom and the landmark Tobacco and Vapes Act will create the first smoke-free gene...
Social Services: Armed Forces
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the merits of expanding existing NHS England funding for (a) national Armed Forces programmes and (b) staff training programmes on Armed Forces community awaren
Answer · 15 Jun 2026
Currently, no such assessment has been made. The National Health Service has several training programmes such as the veteran-aware Trust accreditation scheme, the veteran-friendly GP accreditation scheme and the National Armed Forces Training and Educatio...
Social Services: Armed Forces
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to prepare guidance on applying the Armed Forces Covenant Duty to adult social care.
Answer · 25 Jun 2026
The Department of Health and Social Care fully supports the commitment to extend the Armed Forces Covenant duty to include social care. We are dedicated to working closely with the Ministry of Defence and local authorities to ensure the Covenant’s princip...
Access to Work Programme: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the increase in the number of assessors to clear the Access to Work backlog will be funded from the current allocated fund for Access to Work.
Answer · 12 Jun 2026
The cost of additional staff recruited to process the backlog of Access to Work applications will be funded from within the Department’s existing budget allocation. It will not be funded from Access to Work allocated budgets.
Early day motions
| 1 Sep 2025 | 90th anniversary of the Marine Hall, Fleetwood | 4 sig. |
| 1 Sep 2025 | Blackpool Heritage Trams | 5 sig. |
Speeches in the chamber
15 Jul 2026 Waste Management Sites
Thank you for your chairmanship, Dr Murrison. I also thank all hon. Members who have spoken and intervened, and the Minister for her response. I again pay tribute to the tireless campaigners who have never given up in their struggle aga…
15 Jul 2026 Waste Management Sites
I apologise for naming Surrey. The wider enforcement framework must change. Regulators need clear powers to suspend operators quickly, stronger tests of operators’ competence and the ability to consider the cumulative impact of sites on…
15 Jul 2026 Waste Management Sites
I agree. I thank the Environment Agency, which has worked tirelessly despite massive staff shortages and everything else. It has worked with me and my community to resolve this problem. The passing on of responsibility while communities…
15 Jul 2026 Waste Management Sites
I agree. The problems began following the transfer of ownership from SUEZ to Transwaste Recycling and Aggregates, and the resumption of tipping in January 2024. SUEZ proved that sites like Jameson Road can be operated properly without a…
15 Jul 2026 Waste Management Sites
My hon. Friend is correct, and I agree with him. I will address that point in my remarks. Communities across the country have found themselves trapped in the same nightmare that we have experienced: living beside waste sites, making com…
15 Jul 2026 Waste Management Sites
I agree. I hope that we will get that done—or start the battle to do so—today. Absurdly, none of the waste is even from Fleetwood. It seems that waste can be transported from across the country to any landfill site that is happy to take…
15 Jul 2026 Waste Management Sites
I beg to move, That this House has considered the impact of waste management sites on local communities. It is a pleasure to serve with you in the Chair, Dr Murrison. For nearly three years, the people of Fleetwood have been force…
14 Jul 2026 Coastal Communities: Isolation and Hidden Deprivation
It is an honour to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Alec. My constituency has enormous potential, but it has been held back by years of austerity, under-investment and managed decline. Coastal communities once stood at the heart of Brita…
13 Jul 2026 Domestic Abuse: Police Response
Kiena Dawes was pushed into taking her own life by her abusive partner. Before she died, she said that he had killed her. With domestic abuse-related suicides on the rise and women in abusive relationships being more likely to take their o…
13 Jul 2026 Domestic Abuse: Police Response
1. What progress her Department has made on improving the police response to domestic abuse.
8 Jul 2026 Maritime and Coastguard Agency
Fleetwood and Lytham have been officially recognised as the two busiest coastguard stations in the UK, and I place on the record my thanks for their amazing dedication to keeping our people safe. Will the Minister reassure the House that t…
6 Jul 2026 Civil Service Pensions
My constituents have been treated appallingly by Capita. Some of them have died waiting for their pension—the inevitable consequences of outsourcing contracts on the cheap. I welcome the Government’s decision to hold Capita to account at l…
1 Jul 2026 Coastguard Volunteers: Remuneration and HMRC Guidance
I absolutely agree with my hon. Friend and I am sure that the Minister will look at that suggestion—well, I hope so, anyway. One coastguard wrote to me stressing that removing this support risked affecting availability, recruitment and …
1 Jul 2026 Coastguard Volunteers: Remuneration and HMRC Guidance
I do. To make things even worse, according to the GMB, members were informed of the removal of the payment by a WhatsApp message. We all know that coastguards are not motivated by financial reward; they come into this role to serve thei…
1 Jul 2026 Coastguard Volunteers: Remuneration and HMRC Guidance
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Alec, and I thank the right hon. Member for Orkney and Shetland (Mr Carmichael) for bringing forward this important debate. In 2024, Fleetwood and Lytham’s coastguard stations were …
11 Jun 2026 Business of the House
Across the country, children’s football teams often do not have access to a toilet. This issue disproportionately affects girls, and I have been told that girls in my constituency have stopped playing football because they cannot use the l…
9 Jun 2026 Middle East
In Gaza, the west bank and Lebanon, Israel continues to violate international law with total impunity. I welcome the Secretary of State’s actions against individuals and networks that enable settler violence, but it just does not go far en…
1 Jun 2026 Topical Questions
I welcome the Government’s announcement to select Blackpool and The Fylde College as a defence technical excellence college, which will build a skilled workforce and offer stable employment and opportunities in my constituency. But withou…
23 Apr 2026 Public Contracts: Value for Money
Despite Capita’s horrendous administration of the civil service pension scheme, it was still awarded the Synergy shared services contract. We still do not have a reason why—and I am not the first person in this House to ask. Will the Minis…
23 Apr 2026 Public Contracts: Value for Money
17. What recent assessment he has made of the value for money of public contracts with private sector providers.
Source: contributions on parliament.uk.
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Frequently asked questions
Common questions about Lorraine Beavers, answered from official Parliament data.
Who is Lorraine Beavers?
Lorraine Beavers is a Member of Parliament representing Blackpool North and Fleetwood in the House of Commons. See Lorraine Beavers's official Parliament profile.
Which party does Lorraine Beavers represent?
Lorraine Beavers sits as Labour. See Lorraine Beavers's official Parliament profile.
Which constituency does Lorraine Beavers represent?
Lorraine Beavers is the Member of Parliament for Blackpool North and Fleetwood. See Lorraine Beavers's official Parliament profile.
How long has Lorraine Beavers been an MP?
Lorraine Beavers has served in the House of Commons for 2 years. See Lorraine Beavers's official Parliament profile.
What registered interests are listed for Lorraine Beavers?
Lorraine Beavers has 3 entries in the Register of Members' Financial Interests. See Lorraine Beavers's official Parliament profile.
Source: this MP's official Parliament profile. Last updated 26 Jul 2026.