Lorraine Beavers MP: votes, interests and costs
The Member of Parliament for Blackpool North and Fleetwood is Lorraine Beavers (Labour).
Offices and committees
The Members API lists no government or opposition post and no select committee membership for Lorraine Beavers (read 15 October 2026).
Register of interests
Entries in the register for Lorraine Beavers, as the MP registered them: Miscellaneous (2). Latest registration 18 March 2026. Each entry is quoted as published, with its registration date; payments linked to an entry are listed under it.
Unpaid directorship at REFURB (WYRE AND FYLDE) LTD. The company is in the process of being wound up.
- The type of interest: Unpaid role
Deputy chair Fleetwood Beach wheelchairs. This is an unpaid role.
- The type of interest: Unpaid role
Source: Register of Members' Financial Interests API, read 26 October 2026. The register entry on UK Parliament.
Business costs (IPSA)
In 2024-25 Lorraine Beavers's office spent £143,068 on staff, from a staffing budget of £185,538, according to IPSA. IPSA lists office spending of £27,834 in the same year. Budgets for that year run from the MP's election on 4 July 2024, as IPSA's reason column states. IPSA publishes each budget, the amount spent and the amount left (the remaining amounts are in IPSA's files); no total across budgets is published, so none is given here.
| IPSA figure | 2024-25 |
|---|---|
| Staffing: spent | £143,068.29 |
| Office costs: spent | £27,833.83 |
| Accommodation: spent | £17,106.52 |
| Travel and subsistence (no cap): spent | £11,397.82 |
| Other costs (no cap): spent | £0.00 |
Budgets set for 2024-25: office costs £30,426, staffing £185,538, accommodation £21,667 (Standard non-London area budget from 5 July 2024, and a start-up supplement of £6,000; Standard non-London area budget from 5 July 2024; Standard budget for renting a property in the London area from 5 July 2024).
IPSA's CSVs for 2024-25, read 15 October 2026; constituency as IPSA lists it: Blackpool North and Fleetwood BC.
Staff roles listed by IPSA, 2024-25
Office Manager (permanent full time), Parliamentary Assistant (permanent full time), Caseworker (permanent full time), Caseworker (term time part time), Senior Caseworker (permanent full time), Constituency Support Officer (permanent full time), Communications Officer (permanent part time), Caseworker (fixed term part time) (IPSA CSV)
IPSA annual publications · All MPs' 2024-25 costs (table and CSV)
Votes in the Commons
How Lorraine Beavers voted in the House of Commons: 539 recorded votes since 4 July 2024, as published by the Commons Votes API. Of these, 53 were votes on statutory instruments or procedural motions, which are not listed below. Below, the latest 30 on bills and motions. On 21 October 2026 Lorraine Beavers voted No on "Opposition day motion: Support for British farmers".
Source: Commons Votes API, read 24 October 2026. Only divisions in which a vote is recorded for the MP are counted. The full list on UK Parliament.
Written questions
Since 4 July 2024, 77 written questions have been tabled by Lorraine Beavers, the parliamentary record shows. The latest 10 were addressed to Department for Work and Pensions, Department of Health and Social Care, Treasury and 1 other departments.
Access to Work Programme
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking with the Department of Health and Social Care to assess how changes to the Access to Work programme’s policy, implementation and claimant interactions could improve h …
Disability: Departmental Coordination
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of cross-government working between the Disability Policy Unit, the Department of Health and Social Care and other relevant departments in improving outc …
Liver Diseases: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to reduce health inequalities in (a) liver disease and (b) liver cancer outcomes.
Health Services: Liver Diseases
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the Liver Transformation Programme on reducing the impact of liver disease on health inequalities, mortality rates and variations …
Health Services: Liver Diseases
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what funding her Department plans to allocate to the Liver Transformation Programme.
Sodium Valproate: Compensation
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will commit to introducing an interim redress scheme for victims of the Sodium Valproate scandal, as recommended in the Hughes Report.
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
Source: Written Questions API, read 15 October 2026, SHA-256 5230932f2c8c. Question wording as listed by the API, which gives the opening words of longer questions. All questions by Lorraine Beavers.
2024 general election
Lorraine Beavers won Blackpool North and Fleetwood at the general election of 4 July 2024 with 16,744 votes (40.0%), a majority of 4,647 over Paul Maynard (Conservative). Result as published: Lab gain from Con.
Commons Library results, read 14 October 2026 · Blackpool North and Fleetwood figures
Built 15 October 2026 from official records; register entries and votes are re-read on a rolling schedule. This page sets out what the record shows and gives no rating of the MP. Official UK Parliament page · All MPs · Something wrong? Tell us.