Emma Lewell MP
@emmalewellmp.bsky.social
Labour MP for South Shields🌹 Email: emma.lewell.mp@parliament.uk Phone (Constituency): 0191 427 1240 lewellemp.com
Delivering great places to play since 2000! ⚽️ Thanks to the @eng-premierleague.bsky.social , The FA and @dcmsgovuk.bsky.social , The Football Foundation has been investing in improving grassroots facilities in South Shields for 25 years. Find out more: footballfoundation.org.uk
🚨Biddick Hall Constituents🚨 📬Letters being sent this week to all Biddick Hall residents 👀Information about how YOU can decide to spend £20 million in your area🤝Looking forward to working with you all in delivering for Biddick Hall More info here 👇 www.shieldsgazette.com/news/opinion...
Emma Lewell MP: These are your funds and will be spent on what you want
Last week I was delighted to announce more investment for South Shields. Just this summer, more than £10million was secured for our town centre, and last week I announced that £20million worth of fund...
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It’s #SmallBizSatUK An important reminder to #ShopLocal We have so many great businesses in South Shields. 👏🎉🛍️ This year for #SmallBizSatUK I visited Akins Family Bakers 🍞🥧🍰 & Green Lane Fisheries 🐟🦐🍟
This week our Commons Defence Committee visited HMNB Devonport as part of our #AUKUS inquiry. Thank you to Babcock & all who gave us their valuable time. 🚢⚓️
🎄❄️ Festive drop off at Key Community NE. Sweets, wollies & toiletries. 🍫🍬🧦🧣🧴🧼 Thank you so much Key for everything you do. 🙏💕
30,000 young service personnel to get the cost of their travel home covered this festive period. They don’t currently qualify for travel support, and Labour are changing that. We are on the side of our armed forces. 🎅🎄🎁
🧑🧑🧒🧒 Scrapping the two-child limit. 👦 Boosting childcare support for larger families. 🥗 Expanding free school meals. This Government is delivering on our mission to tackle childhood poverty.
Yesterday, I co-sponsored @yasminqureshimp.bsky.social Ten-Minute Rule Motion calling for a Fireworks (Noise Control Etc) Bill. The Bill would: 🎆 Set maximum noise levels for fireworks sold 🔊 Make noise-level labelling mandatory 🐶 Review the impact of firework noise on people and animals
I appeared on @itvtynetees.bsky.social last night to talk about my constituent Billy and our campaign to improve sentencing guidelines for causing death by dangerous driving. 💔
I will be speaking about this on @itvtynetees.bsky.social tonight. 💔📺
Emma Lewell MP@emmalewellmp.bsky.social · 11mo agoMy constituent Billy’s wife and son were killed in a head-on collision caused by dangerous driving. The offender got just 13 years in prison. Today, I asked the Govt to fix sentencing laws. ⚖️💔
I'm looking forward to seeing our roads in South Shields being improved. 🛣️🚗 www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Today, we remember all those who have lost their lives to HIV-AIDS. On World AIDS Day 2025, our Labour government is launching a new HIV Action Plan, backed by £170m of funding. We will end new HIV transmissions by 2030.
Always pleased to work with #MagicBreakfastUK. Another good result 👏 I will continue to work with them to improve school breakfast provision. 🏫🥗
A lovely #Asda drop-in this am. Thank you to all my constituents who came and chatted, you made my day. 💕 😊
The Labour Government are delivering a lower cost of living thanks to #Budget2025. 📈 Minimum and Living Wages increased ⚡️ Energy bills reduced 💊 Prescription prices frozen 🚉 Rail Fares frozen 🧓 £575 increase to the state pension
Popped into #Tesco Express in Westoe Crown this am to donate to their Winter Food Collection programme.🥫❄️👨👩👧👦
🚨Myth busters on the two child benefit cap. It is right that this Labour Govt are scrapping it. 🌹👇👶🧑🧑🧒🧒 Thank you to @childofthenorth.bsky.social, #HealthEquityNorth and @n8research.bsky.social (1/2)
I again raised my constituent Sophie’s stalking ordeal in the House today and called for the Government to take urgent action.
My #ShieldsGazette column, written before #Budget2025. After years of campaigning, I was pleased to see: 👨👩👧👦 Two-child benefit limit scrapped ⛏️ Justice for BCSSS miners' pensions 🧑🍳 Lower Business Rates introduced for hospitality venues Read here: www.shieldsgazette.com/news/opinion...
Emma Lewell MP: Budget needs to restore some of the trust, faith and goodwill
I am writing this column on the morning of the Budget. I know how frustrated and ground down people are feeling.
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It’s #FamilyBusinessWeek2025! 🎉 A week to celebrate family businesses that do so much for our local economy and community. We are so fortunate to have so many great family businesses here in South Shields! ☕️🍬🍭🎣🍟
Thanks to Grahame Morris MP for his leadership on this. 230 South Shields pensioners will now get an uplift. #Budget2025 🌹💷⛏️
The Chancellor has scrapped the two-child limit, lifting 450 000 children out of poverty. This is what Labour Govts do. Thank you to everyone who never stopped pushing for this. #Budget2025 🌹👶👨👩👧👦 www.healthequitynorth.co.uk/statements-f...
Celebrating school support staff, the Stars in Our Schools with Unison tonight. ⭐️🏫🎉
I popped to see the team from Asda's #TickledPink campaign today with @breastcancernow.bsky.social and #CoppaFeel in Parliament. 🩷 Celebrating raising £100 million for vital Breast Cancer support! 🥳🎉
It was good to meet with Minister Timms again this morning to discuss the Govt’s plans for an asbestos census. ⚠️📜 I’m pleased to say that the Minister is hopeful that an effective census of asbestos prevalence in public buildings will be in place by next September. @mesouk.bsky.social
A Tourism Tax will negatively impact on our hard-working Hospitality Industry in South Shields. Today I urged the Govt to not impose this on us. @ukhospitality.bsky.social #TaxedOut 💷🧑🍳🏖️
After my petition supported by constituents forced ST Council to stop the spread of new HMOs, today I asked the Secretary of State about the Govt's plans to deal with the saturation of existing HMOs in South Shields. Licensing needs urgent reform so we can close down badly run HMOs 🏘️
