Covid-19 Policy Issues raised by constituents JULY 2021
Individual Issues raised by constituents JULY 2021
Covid19 Individual Issues details raised by constituents JULY 2021
Dear Newcastle Summer 2021
I hope everyone managed to get some time with family and friends over the summer, but I know it has been a long and difficult summer for many. The fall of Afghanistan, the Prime Minister’s so called Social Care Plan and the huge cut to Universal Credit payments gave many constituents cause to write to […]
Newcastle wants Climate Justice and Climate Action
Great to join groups from across the NorthEast as part of @Cop26A Coalition calling for real action from this Government, greenjobs for a greeneconomy & a voice for all communities impacted by this existential threat. – – – So the UN climate summit, COP26, in Glasgow, is a critical moment for our planet and […]
Government failing to deliver on broadband
Johnson promised #fullfibre broadband for all, but the Government is slashing gigabit targets, as well as #broadband price controls, the broadband budget, & of course #UniversalCredit support. When will the country get the broadband we need & people can afford? The Minister thought my question was too long when I set out just some of the Government’s failings on […]
Work halves released prisoners reoffending rates – but lack of housing means back to prison @ cost of £40,000 pa
Work cuts reoffending rates in half. The Recruitment Junction in my constituency has a 50% success rate in getting ex-offenders into work—that is twice the national average. It tells me that the biggest challenge is on housing, such as for my constituent “Stuart”, who was released after 30 years in prison and was provided with […]
World Sepsis Day
#Sepsis contributes to the deaths of over 22,000 patients in NHS hospitals each year. On #WorldSepsisDay I am calling on the Government to fulfil its commitment to halving Hospital Acquired Infections by 2024 #halveHAIs
Why I voted against a rise in National Insurance
Boris Johnson’s so called Social Care Plan is a 10% hike in taxes for the working poor which doesn’t fix social care or the NHS but does protect the wealthiest at the expense of our region’s poorest. That’s what he means by levelling up and I won’t be voting for it. The government voted through […]
Opposing the cut in Universal Credit of £20 per week from October
Chi and the other Labour MPs in the North East wrote to Rishi Sunak MP, Chancellor of the Exchequer, to call for the Government to cancel plans to cut Universal Credit by £20 a week from October. Full text of the letter: Dear Chancellor, We are writing to you in opposition to your decision […]