Every year the sales seem to star earlier and earlier, competing with Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Panic Saturday or whatever new terms being invented for what we used to just call the Christmas rush. But some of the January sales…
MPs Report November 2014
Newcastle United Supporters Trust launch of partnership with local credit unions Dear Newcastle November 2014 Like the Olympics, Fenwicks Christmas windows just get better and better, it always gives me pleasure to see the eager queues of parents and children…
Full Text From My Speech At Procurex North, 29/4/14
Importance of procurement to taxpayer and economy Thank you for inviting me here. It’s a real pleasure to be in Manchester for Procurex North. Though of course for a Geordie this is really coming down South. Thanks to the…
Re-shaping public procurement to deliver key social and economic objectives
A Labour Prime Minister entering Downing Street in just over a year’s time will not have any more money to spend. Three years of stagnating growth has robbed us of any chance of being able to increase expenditure. But we…
Same Sex Marriage
Dear Thank you for writing to me about the government’s MARRIAGE (SAME SEX COUPLES) BILL. I am very sorry that you are concerned about my decision to vote in support of same sex marriage. I know that this issue…
Chi takes up a new shadow ministerial role in the Cabinet Office team
Chi Onwurah MP for Newcastle Central has been asked by Ed Miliband to take up a new shadow ministerial role in labour’s Cabinet Office team. Rt Hon Ed Miliband MP, Leader of the Labour Party said: “ Chi Onwurah has…
Young Democracy: 2012 country visit report of the all-party parliamentary group on Nigeria
As a member of the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Nigeria, Chi joined a delegation to the country on a fact-finding mission, travelling to Lagos, Minna and Abuja in April. This is the report of the delegation’s discussions and observations…
Engineering’s gender balance still stuck in the past
This article was first published on epolitix on 8th August 2012. As a former engineer Labour MP Chi Onwurah knows the challenges that exist for women in engineering and how successive governments have failed to get more women into the…
Woman’s Hour on Science and Technology
Dear Maggie I listened with interest to your piece yesterday on the lack of women in IT yesterday. As a Chartered Engineer myself until entering parliament in 2010 it is a subject dear to my heart, and figures published by…
After the Deluge
Sadly many people were caught up in the flooding and traffic chaos caused by the truly exceptional rainfall yesterday when around 30mm of rain fell in just an hour. I know that many people had to cope with deep water in their…