Covid-19 Policy Issues raised by constituents NOVEMBER 2021
Individual Issues raised by constituents NOVEMBER 2021
Covid19 Individual Issues details raised by constituents NOVEMBER 2021
Football: Government fails to respond to fan-led Review
As a #NUFC fan, I have huge sympathy for #DCFC fans whose club’s future is under threat. The Government hasn’t acted on either finance or effective governance & have yet to respond to the fan-led review. We need urgent action to put football fans at the top of the football pyramid! https://twitter.com/i/status/1483481733886615566 HANSARD: Chi […]
Geordie Hospital highlights the value of NHS staff
Chi Onwurah (Newcastle upon Tyne Central) (Lab) I hope you are watching “Geordie Hospital”, Mr Speaker—the Channel 4 series that follows the talented, highly skilled, dedicated and wonderfully witty staff of Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. As we enter our third pandemic year, after a decade of under-investment and low pay, and with […]
Online Safety Bill
In Government, @UKLabour developed forward-looking regulations for tech sector & to protect consumers: (Comms Act 2003). In 12 years, Tories have failed to rein in the tech power, or protect citizens. The Online Safety Bill is at least a year away. Their negligence has caused real harm! Hansard extract: I congratulate the Joint Committee on […]
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 […]