Covid-19 Policy Issues raised by constituents MARCH 2022
Afghan crisis – no response from Government
Chi Onwurah (Newcastle upon Tyne Central) (Lab) My constituent queued for 20 hours to get into the Baron hotel; she was trying to protect her baby daughter from the Taliban, who were firing shots and using tear gas. She was evacuated, but her nightmare did not end there; her daughter’s emergency passport has expired, and […]
Dear Newcastle May 13th 2022
Newcastle can’t afford the Tories – and told them so Kidical Mass Cycling in Fenham Spring is here but it has brought misery […]
Levelling Up White Paper offered no new investment for the North East
The #LevellingUp White Paper offered no new investment for the #NorthEast, but it did have grand ‘missions’ which we now learn Ministers can change at will. I asked the MInister if this wasn’t a cheaters charter – he tried to say breaking promises was democracy. Maybe for Tories! The #LevellingUp White Paper offered no […]
Government failing Physics and Girls
Chi Onwurah (Newcastle upon Tyne Central) (Lab) On a point of order, Mr Speaker. Yesterday, in evidence to the Select Committee on Science and Technology, the chair of the Government’s Social Mobility Commission said that “physics isn’t something that girls tend to fancy. They don’t want to do it, they don’t like it…I just think […]
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Policy Issues raised by constituents 2021 to 2022
Visa Application Centres still failing Refugees
Chi Onwurah (Newcastle upon Tyne Central) (Lab) In 2019 the all-party parliamentary group on Africa, which I chair, published a detailed and damning report on the visa application centres. Many of the points we made on outsourcing, TLScontact, digitalisation, scanning, data reconciliation, training and resourcing have clearly not been addressed, and now Ukrainians fleeing war […]