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Wednesday 15th October 2025
Lord Beamish (Labour - Life peer)

Oral questions - Main Chamber
Subject: Waste crime
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Division Votes
21 Jul 2025 - Employment Rights Bill - View Vote Context
Lord Beamish voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 126 Labour No votes vs 1 Labour Aye votes
Tally: Ayes - 92 Noes - 130
21 Jul 2025 - Employment Rights Bill - View Vote Context
Lord Beamish voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 136 Labour No votes vs 1 Labour Aye votes
Tally: Ayes - 106 Noes - 140
21 Jul 2025 - Employment Rights Bill - View Vote Context
Lord Beamish voted No - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 139 Labour No votes vs 3 Labour Aye votes
Tally: Ayes - 216 Noes - 143
21 Jul 2025 - Employment Rights Bill - View Vote Context
Lord Beamish voted No - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 147 Labour No votes vs 1 Labour Aye votes
Tally: Ayes - 266 Noes - 162
22 Jul 2025 - Universal Credit Bill - View Vote Context
Lord Beamish voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 116 Labour No votes vs 0 Labour Aye votes
Tally: Ayes - 17 Noes - 120
22 Jul 2025 - Enterprise Act 2002 (Mergers Involving Newspaper Enterprises and Foreign Powers) Regulations 2025 - View Vote Context
Lord Beamish voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 145 Labour No votes vs 0 Labour Aye votes
Tally: Ayes - 155 Noes - 267
23 Jul 2025 - Employment Rights Bill - View Vote Context
Lord Beamish voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 131 Labour No votes vs 1 Labour Aye votes
Tally: Ayes - 198 Noes - 198
23 Jul 2025 - Employment Rights Bill - View Vote Context
Lord Beamish voted No - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 132 Labour No votes vs 1 Labour Aye votes
Tally: Ayes - 271 Noes - 138
23 Jul 2025 - Employment Rights Bill - View Vote Context
Lord Beamish voted No - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 137 Labour No votes vs 1 Labour Aye votes
Tally: Ayes - 290 Noes - 143
23 Jul 2025 - Employment Rights Bill - View Vote Context
Lord Beamish voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 113 Labour No votes vs 0 Labour Aye votes
Tally: Ayes - 85 Noes - 127
23 Jul 2025 - Employment Rights Bill - View Vote Context
Lord Beamish voted No - in line with the party majority and in line with the House
One of 130 Labour No votes vs 1 Labour Aye votes
Tally: Ayes - 171 Noes - 189


Speeches
Lord Beamish speeches from: Defence Industrial Strategy
Lord Beamish contributed 1 speech (174 words)
Wednesday 10th September 2025 - Lords Chamber
Ministry of Defence
Lord Beamish speeches from: Prostate Cancer
Lord Beamish contributed 1 speech (356 words)
Wednesday 3rd September 2025 - Lords Chamber
Department of Health and Social Care
Lord Beamish speeches from: Borders and Asylum
Lord Beamish contributed 1 speech (106 words)
Tuesday 2nd September 2025 - Lords Chamber
Home Office
Lord Beamish speeches from: Voting at 16
Lord Beamish contributed 1 speech (81 words)
Thursday 24th July 2025 - Lords Chamber
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Lord Beamish speeches from: Pensions: Low-income and Self-employed Workers
Lord Beamish contributed 1 speech (45 words)
Wednesday 23rd July 2025 - Lords Chamber
Northern Ireland Office
Lord Beamish speeches from: Armed Forces Commissioner Bill
Lord Beamish contributed 1 speech (457 words)
Consideration of Commons amendments and / or reasons
Wednesday 23rd July 2025 - Lords Chamber
Ministry of Defence
Lord Beamish speeches from: Great British Energy: Nuclear Development
Lord Beamish contributed 1 speech (49 words)
Tuesday 22nd July 2025 - Lords Chamber


Written Answers
Joint Unit for Waste Crime
Asked by: Lord Beamish (Labour - Life peer)
Tuesday 16th September 2025

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the effectiveness of the Joint Unit For Waste Crime.

Answered by Baroness Hayman of Ullock - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)

No formal assessment has been made but the Joint Unit for Waste Crime (JUWC) recently published its annual report for 2024-25 here. A copy is attached to this answer.

Since 2020, the JUWC has worked with over 130 partner organisations and led or attended over 300 multi-agency days of action resulting in over 170 associated arrests. In recent years, the JUWC has made significant progress aligning its approach to other criminal justice agencies to target organised crime groups. The work of the JUWC has received cross government support and the model is respected internationally.

We have increased the Environment Agency’s (EA) total budget for 2025-26, including the amount available to tackle waste crime. This will enable the EA to increase its frontline criminal enforcement resource in the JUWC and area environmental crime teams by 43 full time staff. This resource will be targeted at activities identified as waste crime priorities using enforcement activity data and criminal intelligence.

Satellites: Communication
Asked by: Lord Beamish (Labour - Life peer)
Tuesday 16th September 2025

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the benefits of low-Earth-orbit satellite technologies in supporting (1) military communications capabilities and (2) communications resilience.

Answered by Lord Coaker - Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)

The UK Ministry of Defence has adopted the use of low-earth orbit satellite technologies to augment and supplement its sovereign military geostationary communications satellites in support of deployed operations and training exercises. There are significant benefits of low-earth orbit satellites as part of a hybrid approach, including ease of use, fast throughput and rapid deployment. These benefits need to be balanced against security, assurance and vulnerability considerations. Resilience of Defence satellite communications is achieved through a multi-orbit approach, of which low-Earth orbit satellites forms one element.

Type 26 Frigates: Procurement
Asked by: Lord Beamish (Labour - Life peer)
Tuesday 16th September 2025

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask His Majesty's Government what opportunities there are for businesses based in North East England to secure work as a result of the decision of the government of Norway to purchase Type 26 frigates from BAE Systems.

Answered by Lord Coaker - Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)

The Norwegian Government’s announcement on 31 August 2025, that it had selected the UK as a strategic partner for their acquisition of Type 26 warships, will sustain around 4,000 jobs across the UK’s supply chain until well into the 2030s.

This is the largest ever UK warship export deal by value and it is expected to provide a £10 billion boost to the UK economy and support more than 400 British companies across all regions, including the north east of England. It is a huge vote of confidence in the UK’s defence industry and supply chains, which are supported by small and medium enterprises.

Ammunition: Factories
Asked by: Lord Beamish (Labour - Life peer)
Tuesday 16th September 2025

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask His Majesty's Government, in the light of plans to build new munitions factories announced through the Strategic Defence Review, what consideration they have given to locations in North East England for the site of one of these factories.

Answered by Lord Coaker - Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)

The Strategic Defence Review committed to build at least six new energetics and munitions factories in the UK. The Ministry of Defence (MOD) is currently developing a plan to deliver this commitment alongside our wider Defence Industrial Strategy, delivering long-term investment to boost UK growth and generating skilled UK jobs and export opportunities. The MOD is carefully considering arrangements for those factories including potential locations, and more detail will be set out in due course. It is currently considered to be premature to discuss specific proposals or sites until the necessary preparatory work has concluded.

Ammunition: Factories
Asked by: Lord Beamish (Labour - Life peer)
Tuesday 16th September 2025

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask His Majesty's Government, when they plan to make a decision about the sites of the new munitions factories which were announced through the Strategic Defence Review; and when they will make a further announcement about their location.

Answered by Lord Coaker - Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)

The Strategic Defence Review committed to build at least six new energetics and munitions factories in the UK. The Ministry of Defence (MOD) is currently developing a plan to deliver this commitment alongside our wider Defence Industrial Strategy, delivering long-term investment to boost UK growth and generating skilled UK jobs and export opportunities. The MOD is carefully considering arrangements for those factories including potential locations, and more detail will be set out in due course. It is currently considered to be premature to discuss specific proposals or sites until the necessary preparatory work has concluded.

Satellites: Regulation
Asked by: Lord Beamish (Labour - Life peer)
Tuesday 16th September 2025

Question to the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology:

To ask His Majesty's Government what discussions (1) Ministers and (2) officials have had with Ofcom regarding the modernisation of satellite regulations at the International Telecommunication Union; and what assessment they have made of the potential of such modernisation to enhance the UK’s security capabilities.

Answered by Lord Vallance of Balham - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)

Ofcom represents the UK at the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). The Government works closely with Ofcom to ensure international satellite regulations align with UK technology and policy goals, and that strategic priorities are reflected in international negotiations.

In the proposed Statement of Strategic Priorities, the Government expects Ofcom to lead in shaping the international spectrum framework to support UK space services.

As reflected in the Space Regulatory Review, officials are working to embed national security and interest considerations proportionately across all licensable space activities, including space spectrum.

Emergencies: Satellites
Asked by: Lord Beamish (Labour - Life peer)
Tuesday 16th September 2025

Question to the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology:

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment that have made of the role that low-Earth-orbit satellite broadband technologies will play in its recently updated Resilience Action Plan.

Answered by Lord Vallance of Balham - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)

The Resilience Action Plan sets out the Government’s strategic vision for a stronger, more resilient nation. It recognises that resilience across all sectors, including telecoms, is vital to withstanding and recovering from an increasingly wide range of risks.

Low Earth-orbit satellite technology has an increasing role in telecoms resilience. For example, in instances where terrestrial networks might fail, Low Earth Orbit satellite connections can be rapidly deployed to provide broadband coverage.

Landfill Tax: Fraud
Asked by: Lord Beamish (Labour - Life peer)
Tuesday 16th September 2025

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask His Majesty's Government how many prosecutions there have been for landfill tax fraud in each of the past four years.

Answered by Baroness Levitt - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)

The Ministry of Justice publishes data on the number of prosecutions for a wide range of offences in the Outcomes by Offences data tool, which can be downloaded from the Criminal Justice Statistics landing page here: Criminal Justice Statistics. However, it is not possible to separately identify prosecutions for landfill tax fraud as the data does not include a specific offence relating to it.

Waste: Crime
Asked by: Lord Beamish (Labour - Life peer)
Tuesday 9th September 2025

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask His Majesty's Government how many prosecutions have resulted from the work of the Joint Waste Crime Unit since 2020.

Answered by Baroness Hayman of Ullock - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)

This data is not held centrally by the Government.  The cross-agency nature of Joint Unit for Waste Crime’s (JUWC) operations means that interventions and activities will be carried out for a range of different offences. Outcomes, including prosecutions, will be pursued by different agencies (including police) to different end-results.  Alongside operations that lead to arrests, a major focus of the JUWC's work is the prevention and disruption of waste crime through other methods.




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3 Sep 2025, 8:16 p.m. - House of Lords
"to cancer. And to my noble friend Lord Beamish, this will, I can assure him, provide a specifically "
Baroness Merron, The Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Health and Social Care (Labour) - View Video - View Transcript
3 Sep 2025, 8:23 p.m. - House of Lords
"Lord Beamish, and that noble Lord Lord Patel and the noble Lord Lord "
Baroness Merron, The Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Health and Social Care (Labour) - View Video - View Transcript
10 Sep 2025, 8:47 p.m. - House of Lords
"much is being spent, both in the sphere. I know that Lord Beamish is "
Lord Coaker, The Minister of State, Ministry of Defence (Labour) - View Video - View Transcript


Parliamentary Debates
Defence Industrial Strategy
26 speeches (6,413 words)
Wednesday 10th September 2025 - Lords Chamber
Ministry of Defence
Mentions:
1: Lord Coaker (Lab - Life peer) I know my noble friend Lord Beamish is behind us and will know the importance of some of the work that - Link to Speech
2: Lord Coaker (Lab - Life peer) I do not want to incur the wrath of my noble friend Lord Beamish, but we have set up a specific body - Link to Speech

Prostate Cancer
38 speeches (7,242 words)
Wednesday 3rd September 2025 - Lords Chamber
Department of Health and Social Care
Mentions:
1: Baroness Merron (Lab - Life peer) I assure my noble friend Lord Beamish that it will provide a specific focus on prevention and early diagnosis - Link to Speech

Armed Forces Commissioner Bill
10 speeches (2,684 words)
Consideration of Commons amendments and / or reasons
Wednesday 23rd July 2025 - Lords Chamber
Ministry of Defence
Mentions:
1: Lord Coaker (Lab - Life peer) I also thank my noble friend Lord Beamish. - Link to Speech



Select Committee Documents
Thursday 11th September 2025
Correspondence - Correspondence from the Committee to the Secretary of State for the Home Department regarding the proscription under the Terrorism Act 2000 dated 11 September 2025

Human Rights (Joint Committee)

Found: Sharing intelligence with Parliament Lord Beamish, who chairs Parliament’s Intelligence and Security