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513537

registered interest
date	18/04/2016
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	New Hall Prison: Drugs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prisoners from HMP New Hall attended accident and emergency departments as a consequence of the use of psychoactive substances in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Wakefield
tabling member printed	Mary Creagh
uin	34273
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2016 answer text <p>This information is not held centrally and could only be obtained at disproportionate costs.</p> answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire answering member printed Andrew Selous question first answered 26/04/2016 10:38:33 answering member 1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous
tabling member	1579 label Biography information for Mary Creagh

511305

registered interest
date	12/04/2016
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Help to Buy Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many people in (a) Wakefield and (b) the UK have purchased homes through Help to Buy.
tabling member constituency	Wakefield
tabling member printed	Mary Creagh
uin	33658
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2016 answer text <p>The total number of homes sold under the three Help to Buy schemes are 153,235 in the UK and 1,402 in Wakefield.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 20/04/2016 13:11:17 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	1579 label Biography information for Mary Creagh

511306

registered interest
date	12/04/2016
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Help to Buy Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many people in each income group decile and in each year have purchased houses through Help to Buy since that scheme started.
tabling member constituency	Wakefield
tabling member printed	Mary Creagh
uin	33656
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2016 answer text <p>The Department’s statistics on the Help to Buy: Equity Loan scheme are published and available at the following link. This includes a table with completions by total applicant household income deciles. The figures are cumulative (for the first 33 months of the scheme) and not available by individual years.</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/help-to-buy-equity-loan-and-newbuy-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/help-to-buy-equity-loan-and-newbuy-statistics</a></p><p>HM Treasury’s statistics on the Help to Buy: Mortgage Guarantee scheme are published and available at the following link.</p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/collections/help-to-buy-mortgage-guarantee-scheme-quarterly-statistics" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/collections/help-to-buy-mortgage-guarantee-scheme-quarterly-statistics</a></p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 20/04/2016 12:23:11 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	1579 label Biography information for Mary Creagh

511361

registered interest
date	12/04/2016
answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept id	13
answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
hansard heading	Central Point of Expertise on Timber
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many queries the Central Point of Expertise on Timber has received from (a) public sector bodies and (b) businesses in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Wakefield
tabling member printed	Mary Creagh
uin	33657
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2016 answer text <p>The Central Point of Expertise on Timber service closed on 31 March 2016. Defra does not hold complete information on how many queries the service received in the format requested.</p><p> </p><p>The contractors advised that the number of queries had dropped over time. We hold some information from the final phase of the contract between 2012 and 2016, which illustrates this trend. The service received 257 queries between October 2012 and September 2013, 146 queries between October 2013 and September 2014, and 48 queries between October 15 and March 2016. These figures cover queries on timber, wood fuel and palm oil.</p><p> </p><p>The government’s policy of buying timber and wood products only from legal and sustainable sources is well embedded within the key systems which govern our procurement, specifically the relevant government buying standards and the centralised procurement frameworks. Comprehensive online guidance is also provided.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart question first answered 20/04/2016 12:25:02 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart
tabling member	1579 label Biography information for Mary Creagh

506441

registered interest
date	08/04/2016
answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
answering dept id	63
answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
hansard heading	Pre-payment: Meters
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate she has made of how many indebted prepayment meter customers there are in (a) Wakefield constituency and (b) the UK; and what the change in the number of such customers has been over the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Wakefield
tabling member printed	Mary Creagh
uin	32673
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/04/2016 answer text <p>Ofgem closely monitors domestic energy supplies’ performance and publishes information on the number of prepayment meters installed for debt in Great Britain each year. The data does not show how many prepayment meters were installed for indebted customers in the Wakefield constituency.</p><p> </p><p>The table below shows the number of prepayment meters installed to manage debt in GB in 2010 to 2014. Ofgem does not monitor the gas and electricity supply market in Northern Ireland, as it is devolved matter.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong><em>2010</em></strong></p></td><td><p><strong><em>2011</em></strong></p></td><td><p><strong><em>2012</em></strong></p></td><td><p><strong><em>2013</em></strong></p></td><td><p><strong><em>2014</em></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>Gas</em></p></td><td><p>199,964</p></td><td><p>184,726</p></td><td><p>208,235</p></td><td><p>226,999</p></td><td><p>195,841</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>Electricity</em></p></td><td><p>227,352</p></td><td><p>199,483</p></td><td><p>211,519</p></td><td><p>227,886</p></td><td><p>175,348</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 13/04/2016 13:31:14 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	1579 label Biography information for Mary Creagh

510401

registered interest
date	24/03/2016
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	South Sudan: Politics and Government
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps he has taken to support the formation of the transitional government of national unity in South Sudan.
tabling member constituency	Wakefield
tabling member printed	Mary Creagh
uin	904415
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/04/2016 answer text <p>In January I visited Juba and held meetings with President Salva Kiir, members of the opposition and civil society. In the margins of the African Union Summit I met with the Leader of the Opposition Riek Machar. In all those meetings I emphasised the importance of forming the transitional government without delay. The UK has also worked closely with key countries in the region and in the UN Security Council to build pressure on the parties to form a government of national unity.</p> answering member constituency Rochford and Southend East answering member printed James Duddridge question first answered 12/04/2016 16:10:28 answering member 1559 label Biography information for Sir James Duddridge
tabling member	1579 label Biography information for Mary Creagh

484469

registered interest
date	22/03/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Lebanon
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to encourage LGBTI refugees in Lebanon to apply for resettlement in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Wakefield
tabling member printed	Mary Creagh
uin	32176
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2016 answer text <p>We are clear that our scheme will prioritise the most vulnerable refugees, and that is why under the VPR scheme the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) identifies refugees for resettlement using its established vulnerability criteria. These include persons at risk due to their sexual orientation or gender identity.</p><p>We are working with UNHCR and other partners to intensify their outreach to groups that might otherwise be reluctant to register for fear of stigma/discrimination and unaware of the safe space and options available to them. This includes all religious minorities, LGBTI, people with disabilities, survivors of torture and sexual violence and others.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 11/04/2016 12:11:28 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	1579 label Biography information for Mary Creagh

484470

registered interest
date	22/03/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Syria
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many LGBTI Syrian refugees she estimates will be resettled in the UK by 2020.
tabling member constituency	Wakefield
tabling member printed	Mary Creagh
uin	32177
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2016 answer text <p>The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees' (UNHCR’s) vulnerability criteria for identifying refugees under the Syrian Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme include persons at risk due to their sexual orientation or gender identity, and LGBTI refugees are identified through their normal screening procedures.</p><p>We are working with UNHCR and other partners to intensify their outreach to groups that might otherwise be reluctant to register for fear of stigma/discrimination and unaware of the safe space and options available to them. This includes all religious minorities, LGBT, people with disabilities, survivors of torture and sexual violence and others.</p><p>The scheme is based on need and supports those who cannot be supported effectively in their region of origin, we cannot therefore provide long term forecasts.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington grouped question UIN 32175 question first answered 11/04/2016 12:07:09 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	1579 label Biography information for Mary Creagh

484471

registered interest
date	22/03/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Refugees: Syria
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will estimate the proportion of Syrian refugees settled in the UK by 2020 who will be LGBTI.
tabling member constituency	Wakefield
tabling member printed	Mary Creagh
uin	32175
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2016 answer text <p>The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees' (UNHCR’s) vulnerability criteria for identifying refugees under the Syrian Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme include persons at risk due to their sexual orientation or gender identity, and LGBTI refugees are identified through their normal screening procedures.</p><p>We are working with UNHCR and other partners to intensify their outreach to groups that might otherwise be reluctant to register for fear of stigma/discrimination and unaware of the safe space and options available to them. This includes all religious minorities, LGBT, people with disabilities, survivors of torture and sexual violence and others.</p><p>The scheme is based on need and supports those who cannot be supported effectively in their region of origin, we cannot therefore provide long term forecasts.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington grouped question UIN 32177 question first answered 11/04/2016 12:07:09 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	1579 label Biography information for Mary Creagh

480624

registered interest
date	18/03/2016
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Help to Buy Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what proportion of people who have purchased homes under the Help to Buy scheme were from BAME communities since the introduction of that scheme.
tabling member constituency	Wakefield
tabling member printed	Mary Creagh
uin	31731
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/03/2016 answer text <p>The Department does not collate this information centrally.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 30/03/2016 08:45:09 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	1579 label Biography information for Mary Creagh