MP Performance
Filter by Party
Browse by Topic
← Back to feed
Lewis Atkinson
Lewis Atkinson
LAB✓ Current MP
🏛️ Sunderland Central
📅 2024–2026
73 speeches on Hansard record
✅ Votes attended: 92.89% (#37 of 650 MPs)
🟢 Rebelled against party: 0.00%
📝 Topics: Driving Tests: North East, Sexual Offences: Trials, HM Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services: Finance
🤝 Member of 11 All-Party Parliamentary Groups
← Speeches Written Answers
Written Answers
16 written answers on parliamentary record
← Back to speeches
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Production Methods: Labelling 13 November 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of introducing method of production labelling to (a) the economy and (b) farm incomes.
View full answer ↗
Department for Transport
Question 12 February 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the performance of Network Rail and Northern Trains in the refurbishment of Sunderland station.
View full answer ↗
Driving Tests: North East 11 February 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the (a) average and (b) longest waiting time was for a driving test in each of the the test centres in the North East region in each of the last ten years.
View full answer ↗
Driving Tests: North East 11 February 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the (a) retention of DVSA employed driving test examiners and (b) pay of DVSA driving test examiners in comparison to the earnings of private sector driving instructors.
View full answer ↗
Driving Tests: North East 1 December 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the average waiting time is for a driving test in (a) Sunderland and (b) neighbouring test centres; and how many additional driving examiners have been recruited to test centres in the North East since May 2025.
View full answer ↗
Department of Health and Social Care
Mental Health Services: Community Care 27 November 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of NHS neighbourhood mental health service pilot sites; and how learning from those sites will be used to inform his Department's future policy on mental health services.
View full answer ↗
Opioids: Death 20 October 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of (a) the accuracy of officially reported numbers of opioid related deaths and (b) the potential implications for his policies.
View full answer ↗
Mental Illness: Community Care 23 July 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to routinely publish waiting time data for community adult mental health services.
View full answer ↗
Naloxone: Misuse 30 June 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent progress his Department has made on the rollout of Naloxone supply network coordinators.
View full answer ↗
Public Health 4 June 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help support people to (a) stay active and (b) live longer in (i) Sunderland Central constituency and (ii) other areas.
View full answer ↗
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Undocumented Migrants: International Cooperation 2 September 2025
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he is taking with international partners to help tackle irregular migration to the UK.
View full answer ↗
Home Office
Drugs: Departmental Responsibilities 10 March 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she can list the (a) Ministerial responsibilities and (b) the responsibilities and reporting arrangements of any relevant cross-departmental units in relation to drugs policy.
View full answer ↗
HM Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services: Finance 15 January 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the level of funding of HM Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services.
View full answer ↗
Ministry of Defence
Reserve Forces: Recruitment 12 January 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment his Department has made of the suitability of the current upper age limits for former members of the Armed Forces seeking to join the Reserve Forces, in the context of the Government's plan to expand reserve forces recruitment.
View full answer ↗
Ministry of Justice
Sexual Offences: Trials 23 February 2026
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average Crown Court waiting time is for sexual offences in England and (b) Northumbria Local Criminal Justice Board; and what steps he is taking to help reduce those waiting times.
View full answer ↗
Juries: Finance 30 July 2024
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will take steps to help ensure that people carrying out jury duty do not suffer financial hardship; and if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of linking compensation to the real living wage.
View full answer ↗