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Dear Newcastle January 2022

Happy New Year! Let us hope that this is the last year we begin amid rising pandemic case numbers. The festive period was a welcome and much needed break for many, but many also face growing workloads and falling real pay as we enter the New Year. Ballet Lorent perform in their new home The […]

Secretary of State for Health fails small business in Newcastle

HANSARD : Chi Onwurah: “The Secretary of State put a lot of emphasis on testing in his statement. Inspired Outsourcing in my constituency would agree with him. It provides contact centre services, and some of its workers are key workers so cannot work from home. It has been using twice-weekly testing to keep its workers […]

Prime Minister more and more of a laughing stock

Does the Minister agree that every moment that goes by that the Government of the United Kingdom are unable to say where the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom was on 20 May makes the Government more and more of a laughing stock and undermines the critical public health messages on which so many lives depend? […]

Chi Onwurah exposes another false Tory Promise, on Dementia research.

Chi Onwurah, MP for Newcastle Central , today highlighted another broken promise from the Tory government. The Conservative Manifesto in 2019 contained a promise to double R&D spending on dementia research, yet the reality is that government spending on dementia research has decreased. Chi had asked a written question to the government, the response […]

Support for Business and Affordable Bus Travel in the North East

Thursday 16 December 2021 House of Commons Chi Onwurah Support for Business “ Newcastle has a fantastic night-time economy and the Chancellor should visit, as it is a lot closer than California. Those businesses will be seeing a real reduction in footfall and trade, as will their suppliers directly, because of the omicron variant. “What […]

House of Commons vote on ‘Plan B’ COVID19 regulations – here is how I voted and why!

The first thing I would like to say is that I know a lot of people are angry about the Downing Street Christmas parties, I am too! But we must not let that get in the way of us doing the right thing now. The health and well being of people in Newcastle Central is […]