Entries by abena oppongasare

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Visit to St. Fidelis Primary School

Abena Oppong-Asare MP visits local school with Shadow Schools Minister Erith and Thamesmead MP Abena Oppong-Asare today brought Labour’s Shadow Schools Minister, Stephen Morgan MP, to Erith to visit St. Fidelis Primary School in her constituency. Abena and Stephen met staff and pupils at the school to hear about the challenges they faced during the […]

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Visit to Abbey Wood Crossrail station

This week I visited the Abbey Wood Crossrail station to see first-hand the progress that has been made on completing the station and beginning services on the Elizabeth line.   This week I visited the Abbey Wood Crossrail station to see first-hand the progress that has been made on completing the station and beginning services […]

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Windrush Day

I was very pleased to take part in the recent debate on Windrush Day 2021.  I used the debate to celebrate the Windrush generation and their descendants, but also to raise serious concerns about the operation of the Windrush compensation scheme. The scheme has been far too slow to pay out and has left many […]

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Roundtable with Minister and local disabled advocacy groups

This week I brought together a group of local disability advocacy and support groups to raise concerns about the operation of the benefits system on people with disabilities with Justin Tomlinson, the Minister for Disabled People, Work and Health. Earlier this year I met with the Minister to raise concerns about how the pandemic had […]