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Mary Creagh
Labour MP for Wakefield
- Entered Parliament on 5 May 2005 — General election
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- Voting record
- Topics of interest
- Most recent appearances
- Numerology
- Register of Members’ Interests
- Expenses
Voting record (from PublicWhip)
How Mary Creagh voted on key issues:
- Voted very strongly against an investigation into the Iraq war. votes
- Voted a mixture of for and against more EU integration. votes
- Voted strongly against increasing the rate of VAT. votes
- Voted moderately for a transparent Parliament. votes
- Voted for removing hereditary peers from the House of Lords. votes
- Voted very strongly for a wholly elected House of Lords. votes
- Voted moderately against greater autonomy for schools. votes
- Voted moderately for replacing Trident. votes
- Voted very strongly for Labour's anti-terrorism laws. votes
- Voted a mixture of for and against a more proportional system for electing MPs. votes
- Voted moderately for automatic enrolment in occupational pensions. votes
- Voted a mixture of for and against encouraging occupational pensions. votes
- Voted moderately for laws to stop climate change. votes
- Voted very strongly against university tuition fees. votes
- Voted against raising England’s undergraduate tuition fee cap to £9,000 per year. votes
- Voted moderately for a smoking ban. votes
- Voted very strongly for a stricter asylum system. votes
- Voted for equal gay rights. votes
- Voted very strongly for introducing ID cards. votes
- Voted very strongly for allowing ministers to intervene in inquests. votes
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- Hardly ever rebels against their party in this parliament.
Topics of interest
Asks most questions about
- Departments: Environment Food and Rural Affairs, Health, Home Department, Work and Pensions, Treasury
- Subjects (based on headings added by Hansard): Badgers, British Nationality: War Crimes, Flood Control, Food Standards Agency, Bovine Tuberculosis: Disease Control
(based on written questions asked by Mary Creagh and answered by departments)
Public Bill Committees (sittings attended)
- Holocaust (Stolen Art) Restitution Bill Committee (0 out of 1)
- Health Bill Committee (8 out of 9)
- Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Bill Committee (11 out of 18)
- Employment Bill Committee (4 out of 4)
- Vehicle Registration Marks Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
- Pensions Bill Committee (11 out of 12)
- Education and Inspections Bill Committee (21 out of 21)
- Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Bill Committee (4 out of 5)
- Terrorism (Northern Ireland) Bill Committee (0 out of 1)
Most recent appearances
- Written Answers — International Development: Southern Sudan (16 May 2012)
“To ask the Secretary of State for International Development whether Ministers or officials in his Department have had discussions with their counterparts in the government of the Republic of South Sudan on their reintegration plan for returnees from Sudan and its potential effect on food security.”
- Written Answers — International Development: UN Convention on the Law of Non-navigational Uses of International Watercourses (16 May 2012)
“To ask the Secretary of State for International Development whether the Government intends that the UK will accede to the UN convention on non-navigational uses of international watercourses.”
- Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Bovine Tuberculosis: Disease Control (15 May 2012)
“To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs whether the forthcoming judicial review of the Government's proposed badger cull will result in a delay to the issuing of licences to kill badgers to landowners by Natural England.”
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Numerology
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- Has spoken in 18 debates in the last year — below average amongst MPs.
- Has received answers to 101 written questions in the last year — well above average amongst MPs.
- Replied within 2 or 3 weeks to a high number of messages sent via WriteToThem.com during 2008, according to constituents.
- Has voted in 69.16% of votes in this Parliament with this affiliation — below average amongst MPs. (From Public Whip)
- People have made 28 annotations on this MP’s speeches — well above average amongst MPs.
- This MP's speeches, in Hansard, are readable by an average 16–17 year old, going by the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level score.
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- Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "she sells seashells") 148 times in debates — average amongst MPs. (Why is this here?)
Register of Members’ Interests
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Expenses
Figures in brackets are ranks.Data from parliament.uk (source). Read 2004/05 – 2008/09 and 1st quarter 2009/10 receipts.
| Type | 2008/09 (ranking out of 647) | 2007/08 (ranking out of 645) | 2006/07 (ranking out of 645) | 2005/06 | 2004/05 | 2003/04 | 2002/03 | 2001/02 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Staying away from main home | £21,955 (203rd) | £23,083 (joint 1st with 142 others) | £22,110 (joint 1st with 183 others) | £21,634 | ||||
| London costs | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | ||||
| Office running costs | £18,313 (296th) | £14,452 (479th) | £23,416 (141st) | £27,533 | ||||
| Staffing costs | £98,596 (213th) | £82,651 (478th) | £80,028 (443rd) | £60,997 | ||||
| Communications Allowance | £10,752 (143rd) | £9,161 (268th) | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Members' Travel | £7,074 (330th)1 | £5,160 (455th)2 | £8,973 (273rd)3 | £9,387 | ||||
| Members' Staff Travel | £1,114 (71st) | £310 (276th) | £861 (149th) | £534 | ||||
| Members' Spouse Travel | £1,489 (76th) | £1,741 (74th) | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Members' Family Travel | £677 (29th) | £403 (47th) | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Centrally Purchased Stationery | £6,770 (69th) | £1,016 (joint 216th with 1 other) | £850 (joint 339th with 1 other) | £1,593 | ||||
| Stationery: Associated Postage Costs | £3,529 (172nd) | £1,691 (461st) | £4,961 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| Centrally Provided Computer Equipment | £1,138 (joint 434th with 5 others) | £1,346 (30th) | £1,082 | |||||
| Other Costs | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | ||||
| Total | £166,739 (102nd) | £142,644 (384th) | £139,275 (296th) | £127,721 |
1 Regular journeys between home/constituency/Westminster: Mileage £596 (534th). Rail £6,384 (126th). Misc £94 (168th).
2 Regular journeys between home/constituency/Westminster: Mileage £470 (561st). Rail £4,457 (213th). Misc £102 (158th). Other: Rail £131 (104th).
3 Car £1,568 (474th). Rail £6,941 (95th). Other £374 (41st). European £90 (125th).