Individual Issues raised by constituents JUNE 2020
I’ll be off @Twitter for 48 hours to protest the place allowed to #Antisemitism & other forms of racism
I’ll be walking out of @Twitter for 48 hours from Monday at 9am to protest the place allowed to #Antisemitism & other forms of racism on this and other platforms. @Jack needs to show there is #nosafespaceforjewhate & Government needs…
Local Authorities still aren’t getting all the Covid19 Track and Trace data they need
Local Authorities still aren’t getting all the Covid19 Track and Trace data they need. I asked the Health Minister why this data couldn’t be shared as Covid19 is a notifiable disease. Her answer suggests she hasn’t read the question. https://parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2020-07-01/67635/…
UK Telecoms Supply Chain Review promised a diversification strategy
It’s now a year since the UK Telecoms Supply Chain Review Report was published. It promised a diversification strategy which has never materialised (despite the Culture Secretary on 14 July 2020 claiming it had…) https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/819469/CCS001_CCS0719559014-001_Telecoms_Security_and_Resilience_Accessible.pdf
I have signed the @BAbetrayal pledge
I have signed the @BAbetrayal pledge on slots and stand with BA workers. I urge the Government to act and look at amending the slots regulations and it’s current form of allocation should BA continue to attack its workforce in…
The right time is now for STEM
Why the right time is now: https://www.britishscienceassociation.org/appg
Government pays £7 million per UK job to buy a bankrupt satellite biz
The Minister tells me the £.5B #OneWeb deal to buy a bankrupt mainly US based satellite biz will protect 70 UK jobs. That works out at £7 million per job – few other workers are going to be getting that…
Coronavirus update 25th June 2020
Support Newcastle Central Constituency Team continues to be available to help constituents by email at chi.onwurah.mp@parliament.uk or by phone on 01912325838. My surgeries have moved online in light of government advice to limit all non-essential contact. I will personally…
MP’s Report June 2020
Dear Newcastle 15th June 2020 We are slowly emerging from lockdown – but many are concerned we are doing so in an incoherent and haphazard way without the leadership we so desperately need. The actions of the Government over the…