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Patrick Hurley – Southport’s first ever Labour MP

Patrick Hurley campaigning in Southport.

Patrick was elected Southport’s first ever Labour MP in the July 2024 General Election with a decisive majority of 5,789 votes.

Patrick has already been busy working in parliament and back here in Southport, listening to and helping residents. As of the end of January him and his team have worked on around 3,000 cases in the constituency.

Please visit his website – link below – for more details of his work, campaigns, petitions and how to get in touch:

https://patrickhurley.uk/

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Patrick in Parliament

Business Premises: Money Laundering

Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Patrick Hurley received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the impact of money laundering and illicit trading on commercial rental values and the...

Topical Questions

Patrick Hurley made a speech in the House of Commons

Members across the House will remember the desperate prison capacity situation back in July 2024, when fewer than 100 prison places were left on the whole estate and the whole justice system was...

Employment Schemes

Department for Work and Pensions

Patrick Hurley received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of JobsPlus pilot programmes on participants' earnings, benefit expenditure...

Employment Schemes

Department for Work and Pensions

Patrick Hurley received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if his Department will consider allowing JobsPlus pilot programmes to provide employment support to residents living outside their existing...

Employment Schemes

Department for Work and Pensions

Patrick Hurley received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department plans to provide funding for all JobsPlus pilot programmes until April 2029; and when participating organisations will...

Electricity: Standing Charges

Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Patrick Hurley received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, with reference to the Autumn Budget 2026 announcement on the abolition of domestic gas standing charges, what assessment her...

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library: Finance

Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Patrick Hurley received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what proportion of the £15 million announced in the Autumn Budget 2026 for children's literacy programmes will be...

Care Homes

Department of Health and Social Care

Patrick Hurley received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of local authority commissioning arrangements in ensuring the financial sustainability of...

Care Homes

Department of Health and Social Care

Patrick Hurley received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what guidance her Department provides to local authorities on maintaining continuity of care for residents who transition from...

Empty Property: Business Premises

Patrick Hurley received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of introducing targeted tax incentives for the refurbishment and productive reuse of vacant commercial...

Local Government: Lancashire and Liverpool

Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Patrick Hurley received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the proposed Lancashire Mayoral Strategic Authority...

Local Government: Lancashire and Liverpool

Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Patrick Hurley received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Autumn Budget 2026 announcement of a new Mayoral Strategic Authority for Lancashire, what steps...

Business Rates

Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Patrick Hurley received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department will take to help ensure that the proposed retention of 100 per cent of business rates...

Budget Resolutions - Income Tax (Charge)

Commons debates

I welcome this Budget, and I congratulate the Chancellor on bringing it forward at a time of considerable economic uncertainty. There is much in it that deserves support and colleagues have...

Topical Questions

Patrick Hurley made a speech in the House of Commons

Given the recent forecasts around GDP growth in the years to come, does the Chancellor agree that improving living standards requires us to focus on GDP per capita, rather than merely on headline...

Culture: Finance

Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Patrick Hurley received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of developing a dedicated investment mechanism to mobilise public and...

Culture: North of England

Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Patrick Hurley received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that cultural assets and infrastructure are formally incorporated into regional...

Culture: North of England

Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Patrick Hurley received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate her Department has made of the potential additional gross value added generated by increased funding for...

Culture

Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Patrick Hurley received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how much public funding was allocated to arts, culture and heritage organisations in each English region in each of the last...

BBC: Public Service Broadcasting

Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Patrick Hurley received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what plans she has to deliver a universal, sustainable, long-term public funding settlement for the BBC which protects public...