Lorraine Beavers

10 Feb 2026 · Department for Work and Pensions

Access to Work Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many outstanding Access to Work scheme payments there were in (a) February 2026, (b) October 2025 and (c) April 2025.

9 Feb 2026 · Ministry of Justice

Administration of Justice: Reading

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how his Department plans to promote the National Year of Reading within the criminal justice system.

9 Feb 2026 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Public Libraries: Reading

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how her Department plans to promote the National Year of Reading within policy and strategy for public libraries.

9 Feb 2026 · Department for Education

Pre-school Education: Reading

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how her Department plans to promote the National Year of Reading within early years policy and strategy.

9 Feb 2026 · Department for Education

Reading

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how her Department plans to promote the National Year of Reading within early years policy and strategy.

3 Feb 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care

Breast Cancer: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of integrating all at risk screening for breast cancer into the National NHS Breast Screening Programme.

26 Jan 2026 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Local Government Finance: Disadvantaged

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking to ensure that local authorities within the most deprived decile receive above average increases in Core Spending Power in each year of the local governme

6 Jan 2026 · Department for Transport

Driving under Influence: Blackpool North and Fleetwood

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what information her Department holds on the number of drink-driving related (a) deaths and (b) serious injuries in Blackpool North and Fleetwood for each of the past 5 years.

25 Nov 2025 · Cabinet Office

Community Help Partnerships

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how the new Community Help Partnerships will differ from the Changing Futures Programme.

25 Nov 2025 · Cabinet Office

Community Help Partnerships

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how allocations will be decided for new Community Help Partnerships.

25 Nov 2025 · Cabinet Office

Community Help Partnerships

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what progress he has made on the launch of Community Help Partnerships.

24 Nov 2025 · Home Office

Immigration: English Language

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of digitising the provision of English language tests for student and working visas on applicants.

20 Nov 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Homelessness: Temporary Accommodation

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether his Department plans to issue guidance to local authorities to aid the rollout of stepping stone housing to address homelessness.

12 Nov 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Insulation: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether his Department is taking steps to investigate incidents of incorrectly installed cavity wall insulation that was installed before 2021.

5 Nov 2025 · Attorney General

Sentencing

To ask the Solicitor General, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the Unduly Lenient Sentence scheme.

5 Sep 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Motor Neurone Disease: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the extent of regional inequities in the provision of early access programmes for (a) innovative treatments and (b) people living with SOD1 motor neurone disease.

9 Jun 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Chemicals: Pollution Control

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 water, (b) wastewater and (c) high risk sites in England from th

9 Jun 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Per- and Polyfluorinated Alkyl Substances: Taxation

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 on industrial emissions of per- and polyfluorinated alkyl su

22 May 2025 · Cabinet Office

Public Sector: Procurement

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

16 May 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Homelessness

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 additional funding for homelessness in 2025/26 has been (a) alloc

16 May 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Homelessness: Finance

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.

15 May 2025 · Department for Transport

Taxis: Fares

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.

15 May 2025 · Department for Transport

Uber: Taxis

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.

15 May 2025 · Department for Transport

Uber: Taxis

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.

5 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Justice

Sentencing

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of extending the deadline for applications to the Unduly Lenient Sentence scheme.

12 Feb 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Electricity Act 1989

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will take steps to bring forward legislative proposals to amend the Electricity Act 1989 to ensure that the use of sub-meters in domestic properties is subject to the same consumer protections as

16 Jan 2025 · Home Office

Migrant Workers: Visas

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to take steps to improve the usability for the UK Visas and Immigration Sponsor Management System.

16 Jan 2025 · Home Office

Visas: Skilled Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of applying regional weighting for the minimum salary threshold for the Skilled Worker visa.

16 Jan 2025 · Home Office

Visas: Skilled Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of reviewing the minimum salary threshold for the Skilled Worker visa to provide exemptions for (a) the manufacturing sector and (b) other se

3 Dec 2024 · Department for Transport

Driving Tests: Blackpool North and Fleetwood

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her Department is taking to increase the availability of practical driving tests in Blackpool North and Fleetwood constituency.