Beaconsfield

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Joy Morrissey

Conservative Party

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MP contact details

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Positions and memberships

Opposition Deputy Chief Whip (Commons)

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Stances

Topic	Position
MP stance on greater regulation of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) to extract shale gas	Consistently voted against
MP stance on the preservation of environmental protections after withdrawal from the EU	Voted a mixture of for and against
MP stance on improving environmental water quality	Consistently voted against
MP stance on improving air quality	Consistently voted against
MP stance on increasing windfall tax on oil and gas companies	Consistently voted against
MP stance on measures to prevent climate change	Generally voted against
MP stance on lower taxes on fuel for motor vehicles	No position
MP stance on improving biodiversity	Consistently voted against

Data from TheyWorkForYou Votes. See this MP’s full voting record on TheyWorkForYou.

Votes and EDMs

Vote	Position
MP vote on Environment Bill	Aye
MP vote on Ban on Fracking for Shale Gas Bill	No
MP support for Cumbria coal mine court appeal	Did not support
MP support for Zero carbon homes	Did not support
MP support for Accelerating construction work and lower carbon construction vehicles	Did not support
MP support for Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty	Did not support

Data from UK Parliament and TheyWorkForYou. Votes and EDMs selected for indicating support for climate/nature movement. See this MP’s full voting record on TheyWorkForYou.

Written Answers

Department	Topic	Date
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero	Department for Energy Security and Net Zero: Ecotricity	2024-10-14
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero	Gas Fired Power Stations	2024-09-10
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero	Great British Energy	2024-09-10

Data from TheyWorkForYou. Recent Written Answers to questions submitted by the MP to departments relevant to climate and nature. See this MP’s full record on TheyWorkForYou.

2024 majority

5,455

Data from UK Parliament. This information is provided because in the UK electoral system, political parties and the media will be paying more attention to marginal seats and therefore the voices of the people within them can have greater national impact.

Date elected

12th Dec 2019

Data from UK Parliament.

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Place

Constituency history

This constituency was introduced at the July 2024 general election, and replaced the previous constituency:

Beaconsfield

Covered approximately 92% of this new constituency’s population, and 94% of this new constituency’s area.

Estimated households in fuel poverty

9.6%

17.9% national average

Data from End Fuel Poverty Coalition. This dataset has been automatically converted from 2010 parliamentary constituencies. Percentage of households in fuel poverty, including adjustment for Energy Price Guarantee, using National Energy Action base number of households in fuel poverty. Updated July 2023.

Act Now Change Forever constituency briefing

Find out what matters in Beaconsfield Download PDF

Prepared by Friends of the Earth, for The Climate Coalition’s 2025 Act Now Change Forever campaign. Updated June 2025.

Housing Tenure

	This area	National average
Owned with a mortgage	33.5%	28.9%
Other tenure	1.1%	1.2%
Owned outright	37.7%	33.3%
Private rented	15.4%	19.9%
Social rented	12.2%	16.8%

Data from ONS (England and Wales) and NISRA (Northern Ireland), collated by House of Commons Library. Updated May 2024.

Mental health has been impacted by the cost of living crisis

43%

41.5% national average

Survation 2023 MRP polling, commissioned by 38Degrees. This dataset has been automatically converted from 2010 parliamentary constituencies. Updated March 2023.

Estimated child poverty

17.9%

29.3% national average

Data from End Child Poverty, based on data from DWP/HMRC. This dataset has been automatically converted from 2010 parliamentary constituencies. Percentage of children living in households with a net income (after housing costs) below 60% of the national median. Updated June 2024.

Worried about not being able to pay their energy bills in the next year

52.0%

53.5% national average

Survation 2023 MRP polling, commissioned by 38Degrees. This dataset has been automatically converted from 2010 parliamentary constituencies. Updated March 2023.

Friends of the Earth ‘State of the Environment’ report

The state of the environment in Beaconsfield

From Friends of the Earth. These reports highlight key environmental issues impacting people in this constituency, as well as proposed solutions. Updated August 2023.

Constituency age distribution

	This area	National average
Ages 0 - 15	18.8%	18.3%
Ages 16 - 24	8.0%	10.5%
Ages 25 - 34	10.5%	13.2%
Ages 35 - 49	19.8%	19.1%
Ages 50 - 64	21.4%	19.8%
Ages 65 and over	21.5%	19.1%

Data from ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland), and NISRA (Northern Ireland), collated by House of Commons Library. Updated May 2024.

Constituency Population

96,500

102,977.2 national average

Data from ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland), and NISRA (Northern Ireland), collated by House of Commons Library. Updated May 2024.

Number of onshore windfarms

0.7 national average

Data from Wikipedia. Updated 2024-04-24.

Current Industry

	This area	National average
Agriculture, energy and water	0.9%	1.1%
Construction	4.4%	4.1%
Distribution, hotels and restaurants	8.0%	9.2%
Financial, real estate, professional and administrative activities	10.4%	7.9%
Manufacturing	3.5%	3.5%
Does not apply	51.3%	53.4%
Other	2.4%	2.1%
Public administration, education and health	12.0%	14.3%
Transport and communication	7.1%	4.4%

Data from ONS. Updated May 2024.

Current Occupation

	This area	National average
Administrative and secretarial occupations	4.7%	4.3%
Associate professional and technical occupations	7.5%	6.1%
Caring, leisure and other service occupations	3.3%	4.4%
Elementary occupations	2.7%	4.8%
Managers, directors and senior officials	10.5%	6.0%
Does not apply	51.3%	53.4%
Process, plant and machine operatives	1.8%	3.2%
Professional occupations	11.4%	9.4%
Sales and customer service occupations	2.5%	3.5%
Skilled trades occupations	4.3%	4.8%

Data from ONS. Updated May 2024.

Disabled under the Equality Act

13.3%

17.7% national average

Data from ONS. Updated May 2024.

Ethnicity

	This area	National average
Asian / Asian British	13.0%	8.1%
Mixed / Multiple ethnic groups	3.5%	2.8%
Other ethnic groups	2.3%	1.8%
Other White	7.4%	6.3%
White British	72.2%	77.5%

Data from ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland), and NISRA (Northern Ireland), collated by House of Commons Library. Updated May 2024.

General Health

	This area	National average
Bad or very bad health	3.5%	5.3%
Fair health	10.5%	12.8%
Very good or good health	86.0%	81.9%

Data from ONS. Updated May 2024.

Have missed a bill payment in the last six months

33%

31.5% national average

Survation 2023 MRP polling, commissioned by 38Degrees. This dataset has been automatically converted from 2010 parliamentary constituencies. Updated March 2023.

Have missed a credit payment in the last six months

17%

23.6% national average

Survation 2023 MRP polling, commissioned by 38Degrees. This dataset has been automatically converted from 2010 parliamentary constituencies. Updated March 2023.

Have missed a rent payment in the last six months

13.0%

19.0% national average

Survation 2023 MRP polling, commissioned by 38Degrees. This dataset has been automatically converted from 2010 parliamentary constituencies. Updated March 2023.

Have not been able to afford to turn the heating on at home when they have felt cold in the past month

42%

37.5% national average

Survation 2023 MRP polling, commissioned by 38Degrees. This dataset has been automatically converted from 2010 parliamentary constituencies. Updated March 2023.

Main Language

	This area	National average
African languages	0.1%	0.3%
Asian languages	2.9%	3.0%
English or Welsh	91.1%	88.9%
European languages (EU)	2.5%	3.8%
Does not apply	3.0%	3.1%
North or South American languages	0%	0.0%
Oceanic or Australian languages	0.0%	0.0%
Any other languages	0.3%	0.6%
Other European languages (non-EU)	0.1%	0.1%
Any other UK languages	0.0%	0.0%
Sign and supported languages	0.0%	0.0%

Data from ONS. Updated May 2024.

Travel to work method

	This area	National average
Bicycle	0.4%	0.9%
Bus, minibus or coach	0.4%	1.8%
Driving a car or van	20.4%	21.3%
On foot	2.2%	3.5%
Work mainly at or from home	22.2%	14.5%
Underground, metro, light rail, tram	0.3%	0.7%
Motorcycle, scooter or moped	0.1%	0.2%
Not in employment or aged 15 years and under	51.3%	53.4%
Other method of travel to work	0.4%	0.5%
Passenger in a car or van	1.2%	1.8%
Taxi	0.2%	0.3%
Train	0.8%	0.8%

Data from ONS. Updated May 2024.

Worried about having to use a foodbank in the next year

35%

28.7% national average

Survation 2023 MRP polling, commissioned by 38Degrees. This dataset has been automatically converted from 2010 parliamentary constituencies. Updated March 2023.

Worried about not being able to afford their mortgage or rent in the next year

51%

40.0% national average

Survation 2023 MRP polling, commissioned by 38Degrees. This dataset has been automatically converted from 2010 parliamentary constituencies. Updated March 2023.

Country of the UK

England

Data from mySociety. Updated 2024-04-24.

Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD)

2.8 national average

Data from ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland), and NISRA (Northern Ireland), collated and standardised by mySociety. This dataset has been automatically converted from 2010 parliamentary constituencies. Deciles of deprivation, from 1 (most deprived) to 10 (least deprived). This uses a composite measure of deprivation (including income, employment, education, skills, health, crime, and housing) standardised across the countries of the UK.

Coastal constituency

Calculated with coastline data from the University of Exeter, based on the ONS / UK Census Mean High Water boundary. Constituencies touching the sea, or a river estuary more than 1km wide. Updated May 2024.

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Public opinion

Should government policy on climate change be going faster or slower?

	This area	National average
Go faster	51.7%	54.1%
Neither	12.6%	12.0%
Go slower	35.7%	30.9%

FocalData MRP polling for Persuasion UK. Updated July 2024.

Predicted winning party at next general election

Conservative Party

FocalData MRP polling for HOPE not hate. Updated January 2025.

Results of last election

Party	Votes
Conservative Party	18494
Liberal Democrats	13039
Labour Party	7216
Reform UK	6055
Green Party	1977
Other	945

Data from UK Parliament. The results of the last parliamentary election held in this constituency Updated 2024-07-29.

EU (Brexit) leave vote percentage

50%

50.5% national average

Data from UK Parliament. Percentage of constituents who voted to leave the EU in the 2016 referendum Updated February 2017.

Likelihood to take action such as voting for a particular candidate or lobbying an MP to tackle climate change and protect nature

	This area	National average
Net likely	38%	39.7%
Net unlikely	30%	27.8%
Very likely	11%	12.2%
Quite likely	27%	27.5%
Neither likely nor unlikely	32%	32.5%
Quite unlikely	12.0%	12.6%
Very unlikely	17%	15.3%

Focaldata 2023 MRP polling, commissioned by HOPE not hate. This dataset has been automatically converted from 2010 parliamentary constituencies. Updated April 2023.

Should the UK have closer economic ties with the EU, even if that means giving up some sovereignty?

	This area	National average
Closer ties with the EU	45.7%	51.5%
Neither	6.2%	6.1%
No closer with the EU	48.1%	39.5%

FocalData MRP polling for Persuasion UK. Updated July 2024.

Would you support or oppose the building of onshore wind farms in your area?

	This area	National average
Neither	16.2%	18.6%
Oppose	16.4%	12.2%
Support	67.4%	66.3%

FocalData MRP polling for Persuasion UK. Updated July 2024.

Do you think immigration has generally enriched or undermined society?

	This area	National average
Enriched	33.6%	37.2%
Neither	13.8%	12.5%
Undermined	52.6%	47.3%

FocalData MRP polling for Persuasion UK. Updated July 2024.

Should the welfare system be expanded to help more people, or reduced to make benefits harder to get?

	This area	National average
Expanded	27.6%	34.1%
Neither	11.2%	11.5%
Reduced	61.2%	51.5%

FocalData MRP polling for Persuasion UK. Updated July 2024.

Would you be comfortable paying more tax, if it meant more money were invested in public services like the NHS and education?

	This area	National average
Comfortable	39.6%	44.3%
Neither	6.4%	6.0%
Uncomfortable	54.0%	46.8%

FocalData MRP polling for Persuasion UK. Updated July 2024.

Would you be comfortable with government debt going up, provided that money were invested in the economy and local services?

	This area	National average
Comfortable	47.3%	52.5%
Neither	7.2%	7.6%
Uncomfortable	45.5%	37.0%

FocalData MRP polling for Persuasion UK. Updated July 2024.

Would you support or oppose the building of new housing in your area?

	This area	National average
Neither	23.8%	21.1%
Oppose	26.7%	17.8%
Support	49.5%	58.2%

FocalData MRP polling for Persuasion UK. Updated July 2024.

Consider climate change a high priority

53%

53.6% national average

Public First MRP Polling, commissioned by Onward UK, adjusted for the demographics of the local area by mySociety. This dataset has been automatically converted from 2010 parliamentary constituencies. Estimated percentage of constituents who consider climate change a high priority. Updated July 2022.

Second placed party at most recent election

Liberal Democrats

Data from UK Parliament. The parliamentary party who came second in this constituency’s most recent election or by-election Updated 2024-07-29.

Loss of nature and destruction of the environment should be one of the most important concerns for the country

	This area	National average
Net agree	75%	72.6%
Net disagree	9%	8.7%
Strongly agree	36%	33.8%
Partly agree	40%	38.8%
Neither agree nor disagree	16%	18.7%
Partly disagree	6.0%	5.9%
Strongly disagree	2%	2.7%

Focaldata 2023 MRP polling, commissioned by HOPE not hate. This dataset has been automatically converted from 2010 parliamentary constituencies. Updated April 2023.

Policies for tackling the cost of living crisis should go hand in hand with policies to tackle the climate crisis

	This area	National average
Net agree	58%	58.9%
Net disagree	20%	17.6%
Strongly agree	23%	24.2%
Somewhat agree	35%	34.7%
Neither agree nor disagree	21%	23.4%
Somewhat disagree	12.0%	10.5%
Strongly disagree	8%	7.1%

Focaldata 2023 MRP polling, commissioned by HOPE not hate. This dataset has been automatically converted from 2010 parliamentary constituencies. Updated April 2023.

Tackling climate change should / should not be one of the Government’s biggest priorities right now

	This area	National average
Should be a priority	59.0%	57.5%
Should not be a priority	41%	42.5%

Focaldata 2023 MRP polling, commissioned by HOPE not hate. This dataset has been automatically converted from 2010 parliamentary constituencies. Updated April 2023.

Neither support nor oppose Net Zero

25%

26.2% national average

Public First MRP Polling, commissioned by Onward UK, adjusted for the demographics of the local area by mySociety. This dataset has been automatically converted from 2010 parliamentary constituencies. Estimated percentage of constituents who neither support nor oppose net zero. Updated July 2022.

Oppose Net Zero

16%

12.4% national average

Support Net Zero

58%

60.4% national average

Support nuclear energy

53%

57.4% national average

Survation MRP polling, commissioned by RenewableUK, adjusted for the demographics of the local area by mySociety. This dataset has been automatically converted from 2010 parliamentary constituencies. Updated September 2022.

Support offshore wind

86%

85.3% national average

Support renewable energy projects in their local area

80%

85.1% national average

Support solar power

90%

87.6% national average

Support tidal energy

90%

86.0% national average

Support wave energy

85%

86.7% national average

Believe that the government should continue the block on onshore wind development

27%

24.3% national average

Survation MRP polling, commissioned by RenewableUK. This dataset has been automatically converted from 2010 parliamentary constituencies. Updated September 2022.

Believe that the government should use wind and solar farms to reduce energy bills

84%

84.3% national average

Survation MRP polling, commissioned by RenewableUK. This dataset has been automatically converted from 2010 parliamentary constituencies. Updated September 2022.

Believe the government has increased investment in renewables over the past 5 years

62.0%

52.0% national average

Survation MRP polling, commissioned by RenewableUK. This dataset has been automatically converted from 2010 parliamentary constituencies. Updated September 2022.

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Movement

Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust members

2,551

2,956.4 national average

Data from Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust. Updated August 2024.

Churches that have declared a climate emergency

0.2 national average

Data from Tearfund. Updated July 2023.

Constituents pledged to meet MP as part of Common Grounds 2024

0.7 national average

Data from The Climate Coalition. Updated October 2024.

Friends of the Earth activists

252

302.3 national average

Data from Friends of the Earth. Activists have taken at least one online action for Friends of the Earth in the last 12 months. Updated January 2024.

Friends of the Earth financial supporters

137

122.2 national average

Data from Friends of the Earth. Financial supporters have donated to Friends of the Earth in the last 12 months. Updated January 2024.

Number of Great Big Green Week 2022 events

1.8 national average

Data from The Climate Coalition. Number of Great Big Green Week 2022 events Updated October 2022.

Number of Great Big Green Week 2023 events

2.2 national average

Data from The Climate Coalition. Number of Great Big Green Week 2023 events Updated July 2023.

Number of Great Big Green Week 2024 events

1.9 national average

Data from The Climate Coalition. Number of public Great Big Green week 2024 events held in the area. This exludes any private events that were held. Updated September 2024.