After years of delay and uncertainty where jobs, projects and inward investment have been lost, the Tories look set on breaking their manifesto promise to associate with the world’s biggest science funding scheme. Read Chi’s Statement on the European Union…
Since I was first elected in 2010 to represent the people of Newcastle Central, constituents have regularly raised concerns about fly tipping, rubbish, waste materials and litter. Over the years these concerns have grown as the Conservative Government’s cuts…
Chi backs Mencap ‘Listen To Us’ campaign Chi Onwurah MP for Newcastle Central is backing ‘Listen To Us’ campaign by the learning disability charity Mencap. Last week Chi attended a Parliamentary event to learn about Mencap’s new report exploring isolation…
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…
Chi Onwurah MP for Newcastle Central is highly concerned by the latest figures from the NHS which show that at the end of September 2021, there were 92,225 people on the waiting list at The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS…
Chi Onwurah MP for Newcastle Central is backing her Labour colleague’s Private Member’s Bill to prohibit the manufacture and sale of wet wipes containing plastic. Ms Onwurah said: “ Its hard to believe but we use 11 billion wet wipes…
Chi Onwurah MP gave her congratulations to A-level students getting their results today, after 18 months of disrupted learning and revised assessments. A record number of students have been accepted on University courses this year, with most getting their first…
Chi seeks action to renovate The Cooperage Chi Onwurah, MP for Newcastle Central, has written to the owners of The Cooperage, in the Close, near the Quayside in Newcastle, about the deep concerns of residents and visitors regarding the state…
Chi Onwurah MP hails ‘huge victory’ on steel safeguards Chi Onwurah has praised steel workers and manufacturers across the North East for helping to force a last-minute government u-turn on Wednesday over the removal of safeguard tariffs on cheap imports…
Chi Onwurah MP, Labour’s Shadow Science Minister, commenting on the announcement that the Government will establish a National Science and Technology Council, said: “Ministers have cut the budget for science this year leaving researchers and programmes in the lurch, and…