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Official portrait of The Rt Hon. the Lord Beamish

The Rt Hon. the Lord Beamish

Labour Member of the House of Lords M
Lord Beamish's full title is The Rt Hon. the Lord Beamish. His name is Kevan David Jones, and he is a current member of the House of Lords.

Allowance claims · 2026

Data not yet released for 2026 — the Lords Finance Office publishes monthly CSVs ~6-8 weeks after month-end.

Party history

2001-06-07present
Labour current

Government posts

2008-10-052010-05-06
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence) (Veterans)

Opposition posts

2010-10-082016-01-06
Shadow Minister (Defence)
2010-05-122010-10-08
Shadow Minister (Veterans)

Committee memberships

2020-05-112024-05-30
Defence Committee
2001-07-162009-01-19
Defence Committee
2003-07-102003-11-28
Draft Civil Contingencies Bill (Joint Committee)
2010-11-022013-07-01
Administration Committee
2005-07-122009-01-26
Administration Committee
2011-01-172011-03-08
Armed Forces Bill Committee
2005-12-192006-05-09
Armed Forces Bill Committee
2020-03-022021-05-20
Regulatory Reform
2017-11-062019-11-06
Regulatory Reform
2024-12-16present
Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament
2020-07-132024-05-30
Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament
2017-11-162019-11-06
Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament
2020-05-112024-05-30
Defence Sub-Committee
2020-06-152024-05-30
Procedure Committee
2021-02-252021-04-14
Select Committee on the Armed Forces Bill (2021)
2021-02-222021-02-22
Select Committee on the Armed Forces Bill (2021)
2021-09-072021-09-22
Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill
2022-01-262022-02-02
Pension Schemes (Conversion of Guaranteed Minimum Pensions) Bill
2022-06-292022-10-18
National Security Bill
2023-03-082023-03-15
Veterans Advisory and Pensions Committees Bill
2024-02-282024-03-07
Investigatory Powers (Amendment) Bill [HL]
2024-03-062024-03-13
High Streets (Designation, Review and Improvement Plan) Bill
2024-03-202024-04-17
British Citizenship (Northern Ireland) Bill

Contact

Parliamentary office
beamish@parliament.uk
020 7219 8219 · House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW

APPGs (2026) · 1 active officership(s)

Group Role(s) Funders Officers in group Next deadline
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Cardiac Risk in the Young
Subject Group
Officer Cardiac Risk in the Young 4 2027-05-20
One row per active APPG. Funder names link out via the /appgs Top secretariat funders panel — click any funder there to open its full relationship graph. Officer matching is name-based against the parliament.uk register text and may miss titled / hyphenated variants.

Written parliamentary questions · 2026

No written questions tabled in 2026.

Bills sponsored & supported · 2026

0 bills 0 as lead sponsor 0 as supporter
No bills sponsored or supported in 2026.
Source: UK Parliament Bills API. "Lead" sponsor is the primary mover (sortOrder = 1); "Supporter" rows are members of either House who backed the bill at introduction. Year is the bill's first-reading date.

Historic bills (all-time)

0 bills 0 as lead sponsor 0 as supporter
No bills sponsored or supported on record.
Same source as the year-scoped panel above, but unconstrained by year. The "Sponsored" tag = lead sponsor; "Supported" = backed at introduction. Sorted newest first.
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