2016 Open Data Competition
Take part in Chi’s 2016 Open Data Competition by submitting an app or infographic using Newcastle upon Tyne Central’s constituency casework open data for the last year. The entry who is the most innovative, interesting or useful in their use of the data will be judged the winner. The winner will be invited to tea with Chi […]
Statement on ADS
On social media some people have tried to undermine my genuine and considered concerns over Jeremy Corbyn by claiming I am a ‘warmonger’ who attended a dinner with “arms dealer”. In my capacity as Shadow Minister for Cyber Security and Vice Chair of the Parliamentary Space Committee, I was invited to the ADS[1] Annual Dinner […]
Blue House roundabout draft proposals should not be part of Newcastle’s future – we need to change the way we travel
In a meeting with Newcastle City Council yesterday (Wednesday), Chi expressed her deep, deep concerns at the proposals for changes to the Blue House roundabout which the Council has released in early pre-consultation. She is calling a town hall meeting in her constituency to discuss other solutions, including changing the way we travel to reduce […]
Chi Onwurah seeks comments on proposals for the Blue House roundabout
Chi will be meeting with Newcastle City Council on Wednesday 3rd August to discuss the proposals for the Blue House roundabout which will see parts of Little Moor Dukes Moor turned into a new roundabout. Chi will be voicing her own deep concerns at the meeting and is looking for comments and questions to put […]
Chi among inaugural ‘top 50 women in engineering’
Chi Onwurah, Labour MP for Newcastle Central and shadow minister for culture and the digital economy was today announced as one of the top 50 influential women in engineering. The list, compiled by the Daily Telegraph in collaboration with the Women’s Engineering Society for the first time today, features the UK’s top influential female engineers […]
Chi to host Nigerian President’s Special Diaspora Adviser in Newcastle
Chi Onwurah MP for Newcastle Central working with the Nigerian Association of Tyne & Wear has invited the North East’s Nigerian Diaspora communities to a Town Hall style meeting at Newcastle University Business School this Friday(20th May) with the Hon Ms Abike Dabiri Erewa, The Senior Special Adviser to the President of Nigeria on Diaspora & […]
Chi Encourages Teens to Take Part in an Experience of a Lifetime this Summer
Over 500 teenagers from Newcastle upon Tyne have already said yes to a once-in-a-lifetime experience this summer by signing up for National Citizen Service (NCS). This summer NCS is giving young people aged 15-17* the chance to spend two weeks living away from home before creating their own projects that make a difference to their […]
A taxing time for privilege
The David Cameron Tax Haven Peepshow is such an ironyfest it is hard to know where to start. Ministers who used the teenage scribblings of Ed Miliband’s (war hero) father to question the Labour Party’s commitment to national security now claiming parental exploits are off limits. Papers who parade the personal lives of celebrities across […]
Chi reveals details of £25 million of EU investment in Newcastle
Chi reveals details of £25 million of EU investment in Newcastle Chi Onwurah MP for Newcastle Central says: “ Analysis published by the Stronger In campaign today shows that my constituency of Newcastle Central benefits from £25 million of EU investment each year. “ A vote to leave the European Union would mean that we […]
Budget 2016: “nothing for young people and nothing for the North East”
Chi criticises hostile language towards disabled and those on welfare Nothing for young people in Newcastle beyond taking control of their schools away from the community and “putting it on a desk in Whitehall” Speaking in the Budget debate in the House of Commons yesterday, Chi Onwurah told MPs that this was a “Budget with […]