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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 […]

Football governance delay announced by Government

Chi Onwurah  (Newcastle upon Tyne Central) (Lab) I have repeatedly raised with the Minister the impact on Newcastle United fans of the Premier League’s arrogance and lack of accountability, so I welcome his recognition of the need for reform. Will he confirm whether this further delay is at the behest of the Premier League? Does […]

US – UK Trade Deal ensure a worker voice at every trade meeting and discussion

Chi Onwurah (Newcastle upon Tyne Central) (Lab) During the recent British-American Parliamentary Group trade and security delegation to the US, we received the unequivocal message that any US-UK trade deal would have to be worker-centric. We also heard that the Secretary of State had said during the Baltimore dialogues that levelling up was the British […]

The Asylum Process is broken with long delays & plummeting decision rates

Chi Onwurah  Newcastle upon Tyne Central) (Lab) Between 2015 and 2020, the number of asylum applications decided early stayed constant at about 30,000, but the proportion decided within the Secretary of State’s six-month target plummeted from 80% to 17%, despite doubling the number of caseworkers. Is it not the truth that her asylum processing system […]

Prime Minister’s apology for Law Breaking is not accepted

Chi Onwurah  (Newcastle upon Tyne Central) (Lab) Many Newcastle upon Tyne Central residents have contacted me to share precious moments missed, and have charged me with holding the Prime Minister to account. They do not accept his apology, because they thought long and hard about the difficult decisions they had to make, weighing up the […]